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Brock Schuman, PhD
Individual
Company

Brock Schuman, PhD

Structural bio/cheminformatician, 18+ years in drug discovery
Canada
English
Academic affiliation

Skills

Structure-based drug design
Target assesment
RNA / DNA targeting

My research journey has focused on enablement of therapeutic discovery and development from structural biology to biophysical analysis to transgenic and behavioral animal models. I have over 18 years of experience in the life sciences, culminating in the foundation of Azor Biotek.

Dakshinamurthy Sivakumar, PhD
Individual
Company

Dakshinamurthy Sivakumar, PhD

Drug Discovery with 17years of experience in Cheminformatics
Middle East
English
Academic affiliation

Skills

Scaffold hopping
Structure-based drug design
Ligand-based drug design

Bioinformatician by training with Postdoctoral studies in Cheminformatics, Drug Design and Quantum Mechanics with good experience in insilico and AI based CROs with diverse clients. Can be an active team player as well as can lead team.

Rafi Shaik, PhD
Individual
Company

Rafi Shaik, PhD

Process Development, APIs
India
English, Hindi, Japanese
Academic affiliation

Skills

Complex chemical reactions
Total synthesis
Natural-like libraries, products

Received Innocentive awards (USA) for chemical Innovations

Sandro Cosconati, PhD
Individual
Company

Sandro Cosconati, PhD

Theoretical chemist with 20+ years in CADD
Europe (EU)
English
Academic affiliation

Skills

Virtual screening
Structure-based drug design
AI/ML/NN

As a medicinal chemist with postdoctoral experience in CADD, I've spent over 20 years advancing AI-driven methods for virtual screening. I'm a recognized leader in receptor-based VS.

Jan Scicinski, PhD
Individual
Company

Jan Scicinski, PhD

Med Chemist with 35+ years in discovery and development
United States
English
Academic affiliation

Skills

Analog design
Lead optimization
Preclinical development

Drug discovery and development scientist with a proven ability to successfully lead multi-disciplinary teams to achieve high quality results with a specialization in drug discovery, medicinal chemistry, CMC, and IND enabling studies

Kirk Simmons, PhD
Individual
Company

Kirk Simmons, PhD

Organic chemist with 20+ years experience in cheminformatics
United States
English
Academic affiliation

Skills

Lead optimization
Analog design
AI/ML/NN

Organic chemist with 30+ years in crop protection at three organizations. Background in statistical experimental design, cheminformatics and property predictions. Contributed to the development of machine-learning based models whose application to compound acquisition improved high-throughput screening hit-rates.

J. Guy Breitenbucher, PhD
Individual
Company

J. Guy Breitenbucher, PhD

Medicinal Chemistry Leader with 25+ years experience
United States
English
Academic affiliation

Skills

CNS (Central Nervous System)
Lead optimization
Team management (5-20 people)

Organic Chemist by training with 26 years managing drug discovery projects resulting 14 compounds entering clinical trials.

Cresset Discovery
Individual
Company

Cresset Discovery

Premier Computational Chemistry CRO
Europe (non-EU)
English
Academic affiliation

Skills

Ligand-based drug design
Structure-based drug design
Scaffold hopping

Cresset Discovery has a proven track record delivering high impact drug discovery projects. Their expert CADD scientists are the best at what they do and work alongside you from the ground up.  They apply the best in silico techniques and give expert advice and guidance, to accelerate your assets through the pipeline.

Oscar Villacanas, PhD
Individual
Company

Oscar Villacanas, PhD

Computational chemist with 20-year/200+ projects in CADD
Europe (EU)
Spanish, English
Academic affiliation

Skills

Structure-based drug design
Data mining (ChEMBL, etc.)
GPCRs

With a Bsc in chemistry and a PhD in computational chemistry, I have been offering services to the pharma industry for 20 years. I have led over 200 international scientific projects for over 30 international clients, in the areas of drug design and data mining for business development.

Vincent Santora, PhD
Individual
Company

Vincent Santora, PhD

Medicinal chemistry project leader with 25+ years experience
United States
English
Academic affiliation

Skills

Hit to lead
Lead optimization
Team management (5-20 people)

An experienced medicinal chemist and project leader with a record of delivering advanced leads and clinical candidates. Extensive expertise ranging from target selection to HTS triage/lead ID, to preclinical and clinical candidate nomination. >20 years’ experience managing internal and external drug discovery teams.

Warren S. Wade, PhD
Individual
Company

Warren S. Wade, PhD

Chemist with 30+ years experience in Drug Discovery
United States
English
Academic affiliation

Skills

Hit to lead
Lead optimization
Combinatorial library design

Bioorganic chemist by training with 30+ years experience in big and small pharma. Expertise in drug discovery including both FBLD and DEL, cheminfomatics, new technology development, library design and medicinal chemistry from screen to clinic.

John Emery, PhD
Individual
Company

John Emery, PhD

Cell/molecular biologist driving drug discovery for 25 years
United States
English
Academic affiliation

Skills

In vitro screening
In vivo screening
Team management (5-20 people)

A cell/molecular biologist, I have advanced drug discovery from target identification to clinical candidate selection over the past 25+ years.  Experience includes small molecule and biologics discovery, from hit ID, developing critical path assays, & optimizing lead molecules for advancement to the clinic.

Molecular Forecaster
Individual
Company

Molecular Forecaster

Research as a Service (RaaS) with CADD tech. and expertise
Canada
English, French
Academic affiliation

Skills

Hit identification
Structure-based drug design
Covalent inhibitor chemistry

Molecular Forecaster has brought together its world-class CADD tools with a multidisciplinary team to widely address challenges encountered in early-stage drug discovery. We aim to support as many small molecule projects as possible. Growing since 2019, MFI was created out of 15 years of research at McGill University.

Susanne Swalley, PhD
Individual
Company

Susanne Swalley, PhD

Early drug discovery expert with 19+ years of experience
United States
English
Academic affiliation

Skills

Phenotypic screening
RNA / DNA targeting
Hit identification

Trained as a chemist, with postdoctoral training in biophysics and structural biology, I have a 19+ years track-record in industry leading project teams, phenotypic screening, target deconvolution, protein and oligonucleotide biophysics, and statistical design of experiment (DoE) for assay development.

Sumana Ghosh, PhD
Individual
Company

Sumana Ghosh, PhD

Medicinal Chemist with 17+ year experience in drug discovery
India
English
Academic affiliation

Skills

Hit identification
Hit to lead
Physchem property prediction

An achievement-oriented professional with experience in R&D including new drug discovery, medicinal  chemistry and patent drafting. Actively involved in various antimicrobial and oncology projects starting from target selection to hit identification, hit to lead development, preclinical till clinical stage.

Hideyoshi Fuji, PhD
Individual
Company

Hideyoshi Fuji, PhD

Cheminformatician with 20 years of experience in CADD
Japan
English, Japanese
Academic affiliation

Skills

Structure-based drug design
Ligand-based drug design
Python programming

Computational chemist by training, with postdoctoral studies in structure-based drug discovery using HPC, who later spent 12+years at Astellas Pharma Inc. Experienced project leader in Astellas Pharma at MELLODDY consortium.

Sandexis Medicinal Chemistry Ltd.
Individual
Company

Sandexis Medicinal Chemistry Ltd.

Computational and medicinal chemistry consultants
Europe (non-EU)
English
Academic affiliation

Skills

High throughput screening
Lead optimization
Structure-based drug design

Company of one computational and three medicinal chemists who spent 10 years together in big pharma and have been consulting for small pharma since 2011.

Douglas J. MacNeil, PhD
Individual
Company

Douglas J. MacNeil, PhD

Early Drug Discovery expert with 30+ years experience
United States
English
Academic affiliation

Skills

In vitro screening
Preclinical development
GPCRs

Molecular biologist with over 30+ years in all aspects of early Drug Discovery. Working in Large Pharma and small Biotechs; identified 15 compounds for development, 4 novel drugs approved. Extensive experience with drug discovery CROs.

Dr. Sandor Batori, PhD
Individual
Company

Dr. Sandor Batori, PhD

Skills in chemistry, drug discovery and medical writing
Europe (EU)
English, German, French, Russian
Academic affiliation

Skills

Lead optimization
Hit to lead
Team management (5-20 people)

Organic chemist with long experience in drug discovery and development. Spent 20+ years in the big pharma world (Sanofi Ltd.). Experienced group leader, contributed to 5+ new drug developments. Honorary professor from the Technical University of Budapest.

David J. Hayes, PhD
Individual
Company

David J. Hayes, PhD

Biochemist with 30+ years of early-stage drug discovery
United States
English
Academic affiliation

Skills

High throughput screening
Lead optimization
Preclinical development

Experienced leader of drug discovery projects from target ID to IND in large pharma.  In addition developed services for profiling kinases, ion channels and cellular readouts. Gained good working knowledge of PROTACs.

Yolanda Sanchez, PhD
Individual
Company

Yolanda Sanchez, PhD

Biologist with 20+ years of experience in drug discovery
United States
English, Spanish
Academic affiliation

Skills

Animal models
Phenotypic screening
Team management (20-100 people)

Translational biologist with 20+ of experience in big pharma and biotech. Experienced leader of drug discovery programs from target identification to early clinical studies.

Santosh Khedkar, PhD
Individual
Company

Santosh Khedkar, PhD

Computational chemistry leader with 15+ years of experience
United States
English, Hindi
Academic affiliation

Skills

Structure-based drug design
Covalent inhibitor chemistry
PROTACs

Successful researcher with track record of progressing discovery projects by applying computational modeling methods, as supported by patent applications. Recognized for excellence, integrity, proactivity, and commitment to manage team, projects & resources, along with entrepreneurial and leadership skills.

Ross McGuire, PhD
Individual
Company

Ross McGuire, PhD

Computational Drug Design expert with 20+ years experience
Europe (EU)
English
Academic affiliation

Skills

Structure-based drug design
Ligand-based drug design
Lead optimization

Consultant Computational Chemist (10+ years). Previously organic chemist, then 20 years molecular modeller in early pharma research. Section Head in silico Drug Design.