Pankaj Karande is an associate professor of chemical and biological engineering and a member of Rensselaer’s Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies. Before joining Rensselaer, Karande was a postdoctoral scholar in the Chemical Engineering Department and Center for Cancer Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is an inventor on several patents in the area of Transdermal Formulation Discovery and Novel High Throughput Screening Platforms.

Karande completed PhD in Chemica Engineering from UC Santa Barbara.