About Dr. Kalpana Joshi
Dr. Kalpana Joshi is a scientist of Drug Discovery section at Cipla. She was earlier the Vice President in the Department of Pharmacology and Target Identification Group at Piramal Life Sciences Limited, Mumbai. She was Director in Cancer Pharmacology Department at Nicholas Piramal, India Ltd.
Achievements:
- She has delivered eight INDs (new drug documents) in the field of Oncology which includes four small molecule clinical candidates, basically new chemical entity (NCEs), three combinations and one herbal candidate.
- As a core team member to initiate new drug discovery programs at Nicholas Piramal, Dr Kalpana Joshi developed several human tumor xenograft models along with many metastatic and orthotropic models.
- She was involved in cellular target identification, validation, setting up of screening in vitro and in vivo assays and mechanism based in vitro and in vivo assays, lead identification and optimization, and detailed preclinical profiling of actives.
- She was honored for “Nav Durga contributions” in New Drug Discovery by Loksatta at 2017.
- She received an Award “Maharastrian of The Year in Science and Technology” by Lokmat in 2012.
- She has more than 30 publication in peer reviewed scientific journals.
She has been a major support to the Rasayu family.