We are very excited to welcome Vineet Gupta, PhD, as UTMB’s inaugural Vice President for Innovation, Technology Development and Transfer. Dr. Gupta joined us Dec. 1. In this role, he is positioned to elevate UTMB’s fourth mission area, innovation, by ensuring our research ecosystem continuously promotes, facilitates, and evaluates inventions and new discoveries to be spun off in the commercial sector.
Dr. Gupta most recently served as Professor and Vice Chair for Innovation in the Department of Internal Medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. He was the Charles Arthur Weaver Chair Professor of Cancer Research, Director of the Drug Discovery Center, and Director of the Section of Research in the Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Cell Therapies. Prior to joining Rush in 2012, he was Director of the Peggy and Harold Katz Drug Discovery Center at the University of Miami School of Medicine.
A highly accomplished scientist-innovator, Dr. Gupta runs a successful translational research program focused on bringing new therapeutics and diagnostics to patients, attracting significant funding from the NIH, AHA, other foundations, and philanthropy. As an innovator-entrepreneur, he has co-founded multiple startups to translate research discoveries into therapeutics. As an academic leader, Dr. Gupta has helped develop new research infrastructure and centers, recruited and mentored faculty, grew the research enterprise and established new internal pilot funding mechanisms, increased philanthropic support, and helped colleagues and mentees to translate their discoveries. He has also received several awards, including awards for mentoring graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.
His experience and insight will be tremendously beneficial to UTMB as we make strides to advance our innovation mission. Please join us in welcoming him to UTMB.
Many thanks,
Charles P. Mouton, MD, MS, MBA
Executive Vice President, Provost, and Dean, John Sealy School of Medicine
Thomas N. and Gleaves P. James Distinguished Chair
Randall J. Urban, MD
Vice President and Chief Research Officer
Vice Dean for Clinical Research, John Sealy School of Medicine