Distinguished Scientist, Senior Director
Genentech
Kapil Gadkar is currently a Distinguished Scientist, Senior Director, and the Head of the Modeling and Simulation Group in the Department of Preclinical and Translational Pharmacokinetics at Genentech. Kapil Gadkar earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering from UC-Santa Barbara. He has spent 20+ years developing and applying mathematical models to support drug development. Dr. Gadkar has been working at Genentech from 2011-2019 and then 2023 onwards, where he and his team have worked in a wide range of therapeutic areas including Immunology, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Cardiovascular disease, and Neuroscience. Between 2019 and 2023, Dr. Gadkar was at Denali Therapeutics where he supported the discovery and development of drug therapeutics towards defeating neurodegeneration. Dr. Gadkar also has a keen interest in teaching and takes every opportunity to lecture in topics related to Modeling and Simulation in Drug Development to undergraduate and graduate students in short courses and workshops.
