Highlights of professional background
10 years of academic experience with PhD and PostDoc in computational chemistry and 23 years in pharmaceutical companies (big pharma, biotech and CROs). Published 44 scientific papers and two patents.
Medicinal chemistry expertise:
Experience in anti-inflammatory, anti-infective, CNS and oncology therapeutic areas from hit finding to lead-optimization stage. Range of biological targets from kinases, GPCRs, transporters, epigenetic targets to protein-protein interactions.
Computational chemistry expertise:
Structure-based drug design - homology modelling, virtual screening and docking studies, molecular dynamics, de-novo design, QM and QM/MM calculations
Ligand-based drug design - virtual library design, field-based analysis, pharmacophore searches, scaffold hopping, bioisosteric replacement, conformational analysis, FBDD
Cheminformatics - data mining, data analysis, 2D/3D QSAR/QSPR, R-group analysis, activity cliffs analysis, multivariate statistics, ADME predictions
Beyond the rule of 5 molecules:
Design, conformational analysis and ADME/PK predictions for the natural products, macrocycles, PROTACS and peptides. Studies of chameleonic properties and disruption of protein-protein interactions.
Leading projects and teams:
Experience in leading integrated drug discovery projects, managing medicinal chemistry teams, mentoring and coaching diploma and PhD students.