Vineet Gupta, PhD

Dr. Vineet Gupta serves as UTMB’s inaugural Vice President for Innovation, Technology Development and Transfer. In this role, he is committed to elevating UTMB’s fourth mission area, innovation, by ensuring the research ecosystem continuously promotes, facilitates, and evaluates inventions and discoveries to be spun off in the commercial sector.Prior to joining UTMB, 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.