Siva Rama Raju Kanumuri, Ph.D.

Siva Rama Raju Kanumuri is an Assistant Scientist in Department of Pharmaceutics and CTSI-Translational Drug Development Core at University of Florida, Gainesville. He received his bachelor’s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Andhra University, India in 2008 and later received his Master of Science (M.S.) in Pharmaceutics from National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Raebareli, India in 2011 with a MHRD-Post-graduate fellowship by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), India. After his Master’s, he worked as a project associate for 2 years in CSIR- Central Drug Research Institute, India and later joined as CSIR- Senior Research Fellowship (2013-2016) to pursue graduation (Ph.D.) from the same institute. After his graduate studies, Dr. Raju moved to US and joined as a postdoctoral fellow under the supervision of Professor Giovanni M. Pauletti at the University of Cincinnati (2017-2019) and later under the supervision of Dr. Christopher McCurdy at the University of Florida (2019-2022).

Dr. Siva Rama Raju Kanumuri is a pharmacokinetics scientist with more than 10 years of research experience in small molecule preclinical discovery ADMET to clinical pharmacokinetic studies. His research work focusses on designing and orchestrating the execution of various in vitro and in vivo pharmacokinetic studies (human, rodents, and non-rodents) for optimization of ADMET properties of new chemical entities (NCE), drugs under development and natural products. His research helps identify small molecules to move forward in drug development based on metabolic stability, metabolite identification, formation of reactive metabolites and drug transport and permeability across biological barriers.