Associate Vice President
Incyte Research Institute
Naresh Punwani, MBA, PhD, R.Ph. is an Associate Vice President, Clinical Pharmacology at Incyte Corporation with over 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry in all phases of Drug Development. Naresh has an extensive background in Early Clinical Development with contributions to several IND and NDA submissions. Currently he heads the Clinical Pharmacology Group at Incyte. Previously, he has worked at Schering-Plough, Johnson & Johnson, Daiichi and Sanofi-Aventis where he held positions of increasing responsibilities in Clinical Pharmacology & Drug Development. Naresh is a registered pharmacist, and he received his M.S. in Pharmacokinetics from Auburn University and his Ph.D. in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics from University of Kentucky. He also has a MBA from Rutgers University.