About Kishore Udipi, Ph.D.
Dr. Udipi has had a successful industrial career spanning over 30 years. During this period, he has worked in and had led projects in such wide ranging areas as biomaterials, drug delivery, polymeric coatings, implantable polymers, polymer syntheses, polymer blends and alloys among others. Dr. Udipi received his Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry from the University of Akron and subsequently worked at Princeton University as a NASA postdoctoral fellow. He began his career in industry working as a Senior Research Chemist at Phillips Petroleum Research Center before joining Monsanto. Dr. Udipi had a very successful career at Monsanto where he attained the position of Senior Science Fellow in recognition of his excellence in science, his contributions to their businesses and his international reputation, a position that less than 1% of the scientists at Monsanto attain.
Dr. Udipi joined Medtronic in 2002 as a Senior Principal Scientist and was quickly promoted to Research Director in 2003. He built a world class polymer program at Medtronic CardioVascular focused on the development of biostable and bioabsorbable polymers for drug eluting stent and other similar applications. He is the co-inventor of the BioLinx Polymer System employed in Endeavor Resolute, Medtronic’s second generation drug eluting stent. In recognition of his leadership and technical contributions, Dr. Udipi was also appointed to the position of Distinguished Scientist in 2007. He has 27 awarded US patents; scores of awarded foreign patents, as well as 17 pending US applications. He has authored and co-authored >30 papers in peer reviewed journals. He has also made presentations and chaired sessions at national and international polymer and biomedical conferences.