Dr. Kulkarni is a Principal Investigator at the Joslin Diabetes Center, Assistant Professor of Medicine and a Faculty Member of the BBS Graduate Program at Harvard Medical School. Dr Kulkarni graduated with MD and PhD degrees from St. John's Medical College and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, University of London, England. While working on his doctoral thesis on regulatory peptides modulating islet function in Prof. Steve Bloom's laboratory in England, Dr Kulkarni trained in the Diabetes Unit at Hammersmith Hospital in London. He moved to Boston, obtained the F32 National Research Scholarship Award (NIH), and completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the laboratory of Prof. C. Ronald Kahn. Subsequently, he received the K08 Clinician Scientist Development Award (NIH) and Best Presentation Award by a K08 Awardee; he is the recipient of the 2007 Endocrine Society Ernst Oppenheimer Laureate Award for Outstanding Work by a Young Investigator and was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation in April 2007. Dr. Kulkarni has been on the Joslin Staff and Harvard Medical School Faculty since 1999, and currently serves on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Clinical Investigation, Diabetes, and J of Endocrinology.