Rohit N. Kulkarni

Rohit Kulkarni M.D. Ph.D. is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Margaret A. Congleton Chair and Co-Head of the Section on Islet & Regenerative Biology at Joslin Diabetes Center. He holds a M.D. and Ph.D. from St. John’s Medical College and Royal Postgraduate Medical school in London. His research lab at Harvard focuses primarily on the study of a specific type of cell in the pancreas called islet cells, including but not limited to studying how islet cells behave in various environments and discovering and developing therapeutic treatments for both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. He has been on the Faculty of the Joslin Diabetes Center since 1999 and is currently a Senior Investigator and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Kulkarni is the recipient of the Endocrine Society’s Ernst Oppenheimer Award, the Merck Frosst Distinguished Lectureship and James H. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professorship and is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and Association of American Physicians.