2023 - Present     Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, St. John’s University

2018 - 2023          Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, St. John’s University

2015 – 2018 Post-doctoral Fellow, College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico Research focus: Aerosol drug and vaccine delivery

2011 - 2014 Ph.D. in Formulation and Drug Delivery, School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

2010 - 2011 Master’s in Drug Delivery, The London School of Pharmacy, London, UK 

2005 - 2009 Bachelor’s in Pharmacy (Honors), Birla Institute of Technology & Science-Pilani (BITS-Pilani), India

Research Interests: Current interests include the use of nanotechnology in developing therapeutics against infectious disease and cancer, synthesizing polymeric nanoparticles and attaching targeting moieties for site-specific delivery, amorphous solid dispersions, and drug and vaccine formulation for pulmonary delivery.

Dr. Kunda’s laboratory specializes in developing dry powder biologics that do not require cold-chain for storage and transport thereby decreasing the cost of biologics-based products significantly.