Dr Amit Kalgutkar
Senior Research Fellow, Pfizer
Amit Kalgutkar is a Senior Research Fellow in the Medicine Design Group in Pfizer. He received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Virginia Tech and conducted post-doctoral studies at the Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, prior to joining Pfizer in 1999. Dr Kalgutkar has >20 years' experience in drug discovery/development, spanning multiple therapeutic areas with over 20 investigational drug candidates nominated for clinical development and two marketed products (PaxlovidTM and Steglatro®). Dr. Kalgutkar is an accomplished scientific leader inside Pfizer as well as in the external scientific community with over 180 peer-reviewed papers, reviews, and book chapters and 8 issued patents. Dr. Kalgutkar also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Rhode Island.