Abbvie Inc.
Akshanth R. Polepally, MPharm, PhD, is Research Fellow and Director in the Clinical Pharmacology Department at AbbVie. He received his PhD from the Department of Experimental & Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Minnesota. Before earning his doctoral degree, he received bachelor's and master's degrees in pharmacy from BITS, Pilani, India and worked as Junior Scientist in the Drug Discovery Research Organization of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories in Hyderabad, India. Overall, he has 14+ years of industry experience in drug discovery and development organizations. Akshanth authored/co-authored over 60 publications including 30 peer-reviewed manuscripts.
At AbbVie, Akshanth primarily leads and develops clinical and quantitative (modeling & simulation) pharmacology strategies for development of new drugs. He is primarily responsible for optimal therapeutic dose selection and for design and conduct of clinical pharmacokinetic/pharmacology studies and phase 2/3 studies. He has been part of development of several new drugs, with three successful drug approvals in virology and women's health.