Current Members
Head of the Laboratory
Vineet Gupta, PhD
Principal Investigator
I am a scientist, an inventor and an entrepreneur. My core belief is that we ought to help patients in our own lifetime by developing new scientific insights, therapeutics, and diagnostics and by doing all we can to move them from the bench to the bedside. This generally means doing all the initial, high-risk development and proof-of-concept work ourselves.
I received my MS in Chemistry from IIT Delhi and my PhD in Chemistry from University of Rochester in Rochester, NY. My post-doctoral training in Biomedical Research and Structural Biology was at the Rockefeller University in New York City and at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
I previously held faculty positions at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, at Miller School of Medicine at University of Miami, and at Rush Medical College at Rush University.
Contact: vigupta@utmb.edu
I am a co-founder of following biotech startups:
149 Bio, LLC (DBA Allosite Therapeutics)
Adhaere Pharmaceuticals, Inc (acquired by Gossamer Bio, Inc)
Aquatrove Biosciences, Inc (acquired by Sasmar)
Postdoctoral Fellows
Xiaobo Li, MD, PhD
Muhammad Kalim, PhD
Lubna Mahmoud, MD, PhD
Nishant Ranjan Chauhan, PhD
Sherlene Brown, PhD
Graduate Students
Viviana Jimenez
Billy Nguyen
Ameera Shaw, MS
Prathyushasai Machineni, MS
Kaitlyn Sanchez-Nussberger
Research Associate
Sowmya Kamaraj, MS
Lab Manager
Brenna Knott, MS
Lab Alumni
Disha Varma, PhD – postdoc
Veronica Villanueva, PhD – graduate student
Ha Won Lee, PhD – postdoc
Jun Park, PhD – postdoc