Khankari joins the company from CIMA Labs Inc., a Cephalon company, where he served as general manager, CIMA Labs Inc., and vice president for Worldwide Drug Delivery Technologies. Khankari earned his initial degrees in Pharmaceutics from universities in India. Khankari also has a PhD in Pharmaceutics and an MBA from the University of Minnesota.
In addition to holding several patents, Khankari has been widely published in several peer-reviewed journals and has been a presenter at more than two dozen national and international meetings.