Robert A. Baughman
Robert A. Baughman, PhD, Vice President, Experimental Pharmacology, MannKind Corporation
Dr. Baughman is currently Vice President, Experimental Pharmacology at MannKind Corporation in Danbury, CT. He received his undergraduate degree in Biology from Loyola University, Los Angeles, and his Pharm.D. in 1978 and Ph.D. (Biopharmaceutics) in 1982 from the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Baughman held pre-clinical and clinical research positions at Lederle Laboratories, Genentech, Penederm, Cholestech, and Emisphere Technologies prior to this tenure at MannKind. His current research interests include developing and optimizing novel dosage forms and characterizing the disposition of therapeutic peptides and proteins. He has conducted clinical studies with more that 15 macromolecular drug products, including novel, non-parenteral formulations of insulin, growth hormone, parathyroid hormone, heparin, and calcitonin. His more than 130 published works are focused on the pharmacokinetics and delivery of recombinant and synthetic drug products. He is an active member of the American Diabetes Association and the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS). He was elected Chairman of the AAPS Biotechnology section and to a 3-year term as the Association's Treasurer, as well as serving as a member of the AAPS Executive Council. He sat on the Advisory Board of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology and the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. He has held an adjunct faculty appointment in the College of Pharmacy, University of Florida since 1988. He is lives in Ridgefield, CT, with his wife Barbara and their six children.