LigDCipher (2007 – present)
Consultant
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Providing computational chemistry expertise to Biotech / Pharmaceutical companies
- Clients have included:
- Ampylx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Genentech, Inc.
- Orphagen Pharmaceuticals
- Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals, LLC
Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc (2002 - 2007)
Associate Director of Computational Sciences
- Managed Computational Sciences Group, team of 4 Ph.D.s
- Led Sunesis Screening Library Project
- Provided computational chemistry support for the screening library team as well as therapeutic project spanning 5 biological targets at various stages, from lead discovery to optimization of PK/ADME profiles
Combichem, Inc / DuPont Pharmaceuticals / Deltagen (1997 – 2002)
Computational groups of CombiChem, DuPont Pharmaceuticals, and Deltagen were the same organization passing through multiple mergers and acquisitions over course of five years.
Associate Director Computational Chemistry (2001 – 2002)Principal Scientist / Senior Scientist (1997 – 2001)
- Co-leadership of the Computational Science Team, 11 applications and development scientists.
- Co-project leader of the Corporate Library Project
- Provided computational chemistry support for corporate library and 4 different therapeutic
- Member of 3 software development project teams; project leader for one.
Chiron Corporation (1991 – 1997)
Scientist I / II
- Developed and used 2D NMR methods to studying peptides, small proteins, and lead compounds from combinatorial libraries
- Provided computational chemistry support for therapeutic project teams
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Ph.D. Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
B.S. Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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