Gregory Knipp

Short Bio:

Dr Gregory T. Knipp is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Purdue University, and serves as the Associate Director of the Dane O. Kildsig Center for Pharmaceutical Processing Research and the Director of the Purdue Translational Pharmacology CTSI Core Facility. He received a B.S. in Biochemistry from Rutgers in 1988. He then worked in the Physical Pharmacy Department at Bristol-Myers Squibb until 1991, prior to returning to graduate school. In 1997, he received a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from The University of Kansas, and then performed postdoctoral research in the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology at The University of Kansas Medical Center until 1999. After his postdoctoral studies, he became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics in the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers, the State University of NJ. In 2006, his laboratory moved to the Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy at Purdue University. His current research interests include the molecular and functional characterization of oligopeptide and fatty acid transporters, the effect of xenobiotics on placental fatty acid homeostasis and fetal development, and the effects of dosage form variation on clinically-relevant performance in the juvenile and adult porcine models.