Dr. Vineet Gupta serves as UTMB’s inaugural Vice President for Innovation, Technology Development
and Transfer. In this role, he is committed to elevating UTMB’s fourth mission area, innovation, by
ensuring the research ecosystem continuously promotes, facilitates, and evaluates inventions and
discoveries to be spun off in the commercial sector.
Prior to joining UTMB, Dr. Gupta most recently served as Professor and Vice Chair for Innovation in the
Department of Internal Medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. He was the Charles
Arthur Weaver Chair Professor of Cancer Research, Director of the Drug Discovery Center, and Director
of the Section of Research in the Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Cell Therapies. Prior to joining
Rush in 2012, he was Director of the Peggy and Harold Katz Drug Discovery Center at the University of
Miami School of Medicine.
A highly accomplished scientist-innovator, Dr. Gupta runs a successful translational research program
focused on bringing new therapeutics and diagnostics to patients, attracting significant funding from the
NIH, AHA, other foundations, and philanthropy. As an innovator-entrepreneur, he has co-founded
multiple startups to translate research discoveries into therapeutics. As an academic leader, Dr. Gupta
has helped develop new research infrastructure and centers, recruited and mentored faculty, grew the
research enterprise and established new internal pilot funding mechanisms, increased philanthropic
support, and helped colleagues and mentees to translate their discoveries. He has also received several
awards, including awards for mentoring graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.