Director of Operations and Business Developemnt

Harry Kochat, PhD Director, UTHSC-Plough Center for Sterile Drug Delivery Solutions Associated Professor, Pharmaceutical Science, College of Pharmacy University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis TN 38163 Email: [email protected] Phone: 901.448.1440 With more than a quarter-century of experience in innovative drug discoveries and development, Dr. Kochat has a proven record of accomplishment, landing and leading critical business development strategies, incubating various corporate success-oriented new business models and pharmaceutical operations at UTHSC-Plough Center as its director. He joined UTHSC-Plough Center in December 2016 as the Director of Pharmaceutical Operations and Business Development reporting directly to Dr. Kennard Brown, Vice Chancellor and Chief Operating Officer of UTHSC. Shortly thereafter, he also gained associate professorship in the department of pharmaceutical science at the UTHSC College of Pharmacy in recognition of his passion toward science and modern formulation technologies. Prior to joining UTHSC, he served in a senior executive role for a fast-growing pharmaceutical company based in San Antonio, Texas for more than 17 years with verifiable year-after-year success achieving corporate goals, and business growth objectives in oncology field. His leadership and regulatory capabilities contributed to the successful development of three innovative therapies from discovery bench side to patient side along with 13 clinical ready preclinical programs. He is highly recognized as a champion for his patent protected scientific inventions and peer journal publications of his discoveries aiming to meet the unmet clinical needs. Dr. Kochat has more than 400 issued domestic and international patents and over 60 peer journal scientific publications under his belt. Dr. Kochat holds a PhD degree in organic chemistry while working at Purdue University as an exchange international scholar and six years of additional postdoctoral fellowships between Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN and William Marsh Rice University, Houston, TX. He also passionately served for several years as drug development advocate in KOL role assisting multiple corporations for in-licensing promising therapeutic programs that include generic and orphan drugs for animal health as well as human health treatment indications. He is a recipient of 2017-18 CORNET award for his stimulating interdisciplinary research collaboration program at University of Tennessee Health Science Center Memphis, TN campus. Since joining UTHSC-Plough Center in December 2016, among his many responsibilities, he continues to excel his corporate negotiation and implementation skills by crafting strategies to initiate two industrial manufacturing contracts and six scientific collaborations.