Pharmaceutics Graduate Seminar
Karthik Nagapudi, Ph.D.
Executive Director and Distinguished Scientist, Head of Synthetic Molecule Pharmaceutical Sciences, Genentech, CA
Seminar Title: "Development of Lipid Nanoparticle Platforms for mRNA delivery:
From Feasibility to Scalability"
PBB 229
Friday October 10, 2025, from 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Karthik Nagapudi got his PhD degree in polymer science from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999 under the supervision of Dr. Haskell Beckham. He did his postdoctoral work in the lab of Dr. Elliot Chaikof in Emory University. After his postdoctoral work, he joined Merck Research Labs in the physical measurements group in January of 2003. In 2006 he moved to the preformulation group in Amgen Inc. In 2011 he became the head of the solid-state group in Amgen. In July of 2014, he moved to Genentech as a senior scientist in the Small Molecule Pharmaceutics group. He was promoted to Distinguished Scientist in 2018 and to Executive Director in 2023. He is currently the department head for the synthetic molecule pharmaceutics group in Genentech. His primary research interests are in the areas of Drug delivery technologies, Biopharmaceutics, Mechanochemistry, application of advanced solid-state NMR methods in pharmaceutical analysis, and understanding thermodynamics of phase behavior in pharmaceuticals. He has published over 110 papers and has 10 patents to his name.
For more information, contact: Reena Bokria at rjb07003@uconn.edu