Associate Professor
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ashish Kulkarni is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has courtesy appointments in the Departments of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. Before this, he was an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Bioengineer at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He received his B. Tech. in Chemical Technology from the Institute of Chemical Technology, University of Mumbai, his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio and his postdoctoral training from Harvard Medical School and MIT. At UMass Amherst, his research program is focused on ImmunoEngineering, bridging nanoscience, drug delivery and engineering design with manipulation of the immune system to address fundamental and translational questions in cancer. His work has been published in high-impact journals (including Science Advances, Advanced Materials, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Communications, Biomaterials, PNAS, ACS Nano, Cancer Research etc.) and featured in several global media outlets (BBC News, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Yahoo News, Nature, Science News, Science Daily etc.). He was selected as one of the top 12 rising researchers, ‘Talented 12’, by the American Chemical Society’s Chemical & Engineering News, a ‘Young Innovator’ in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering by the Biomedical Engineering Society, a ‘NextGen Star’ in Cancer Research by American Association for Cancer Research and an ‘Emerging Investigator’ by Biomaterials Science. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, NIGMS R35 Outstanding Investigator (MIRA) Award, American Cancer Society’s Research Scholar Award, Melanoma Research Alliance Young Investigator Award, Cancer Research Institute Technology Impact Award and Hearst Foundation Young Investigator Award.