Dr. Kalpana is a faculty member of the Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University, India of the Faculty of Health Sciences of Amity University, India. She has been the gold medalist during graduation as well as post-graduation and undertook her PhD in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Guru Jambeshwar University, India. Dr. Kalpana teaches pharmaceutical engineering, unit operation and novel drug delivery system undergraduate and post graduate students. She is the Recipient of Murgappe Sirse Best Poster of the Convention Award and Sir C V Raman Scholarship during PhD

Dr. Kalpana is interested in Pharmaceutics with major emphasis on the development of Novel Drug Delivery Systems, especially Nano Carriers and Brain Targeting.. She also is keen on participatory research, especially action research in the health care. Dr. Kalpana has twenty seven publications to her credit in international journals of high scientific impact. She has contributed chapters in outstanding reference books and has presented thirty five papers in international/national conferences. She has bagged several awards for her oral/poster presentation of her research work in various conferences.