Executive Director
University of Minnesota
Vadim J. Gurvich, Ph.D., M.B.A. is Associate Director of the Institute for Therapeutics Discovery and Development (ITDD) and Research Associate Professor in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Minnesota. He is also the Executive Director of the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology and Education (NIPTE), a national consortium of leading schools and colleges of Pharmacy and Chemical Engineering. Dr Gurvich is an expert in synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry, drug synthesis and chemical process development and engineering. Dr. Gurvich holds a doctoral degree in organic chemistry along with master’s degrees in chemical engineering and business administration (MBA) and possesses over 25 years of academic and industrial research and development experience. Dr. Gurvich currently serves as Principal Investigator, Co-Principal Investigator, and Co-Investigator on several NIH-, DOD-, and FDA-funded grants and contracts, as well as a few industry-funded projects