Manthena V. Varma, M.S., Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
Dr. Manthena Varma, PhD is Research Fellow, at Pfizer Inc. Dr. Varma received his B. Pharm. degree from the Kakatiya University, India in 2000, and an M.S. degree (2001) and PhD in Pharmaceutics (2005), from the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and research (NIPER), Punjab, India. Later, Dr. Varma worked as a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis). In 2008, he joined Worldwide R&D, Pfizer, Groton, CT. Dr. Varma holds an Adjunct faculty position in the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Rhode Island. Manthena is a founding member and Instructor for an Annual workshop on “Transporters in Drug Discovery and Development: Driving Knowledge from Laboratory to Label” at University of Rhode Island. He is member and ex-chair (2017-18) of North Jersey Drug Metabolism Discussion Group. His research is focused on the fields of ADME/PK technologies and strategies in drug discovery and development, role of drug transporters and transporter-enzyme interplay (extended clearance) in ADME/PK, clinical pharmacokinetics and DDI predictions/evaluation via mechanistic (PBPK) modeling. Varma supported preclinical and clinical development of several Pfizer compounds in the oncology, diabetes, anti-infectives and more recently in obesity therapeutic areas. He published about 150 original articles/reviews/book chapters and presented over 80 presentations at conferences in these scientific areas.