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Data-Driven Drug Discovery and Molecular Informatics

Currently also: Chief Informatics and Technology Officer (CITO) at Pangea Botanica, London/UK and Berlin/Germany

Previous positions:

Director Digital Chemistry at NUVISAN Berlin

Associate Director Computational ADME and Safety (Clinical Pharmacology & Safety Sciences/Data Science and Artificial Intelligence - CPSS/DSAI) at AstraZeneca Cambridge

Co-founder of Healx Ltd.

Co-founder of PharmEnable Ltd.

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  • Committed to developing new life science data analysis methods (AI/ML/data science) and their application, primarily related to chemical biology, drug discovery and in silico toxicology
  • Expertise comprises data ranging from chemical structure and gene expression data to phenotypic readouts and preclinical information, applied to both efficacy- and safety/tox-related questions
  • Collaborating with academic research groups, as well as  pharmaceutical, chemical, and consumer goods companies (Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, GSK, BASF, Johnson&Johnson/Janssen, Unilever, ...)
  • Co-founder/founding CTO and current SAB member of Healx Ltd. (data-driven drug repurposing for rare diseases, and beyond); co-founder of PharmEnable Ltd.; SAB member of Lhasa Ltd. (toxicology and metabolism prediction) and Cresset Ltd.
  • Coordinator of the Computational & In Silico Toxicology Specialty Section of the British Toxicology Society (BTS)
  • Steering Committee Member of the Cambridge Alliance on Medicines Safety (CAMS)
  • Currently leading a group of ca. 15 PhD students, postdocs, project students and visitors at the Centre for Molecular Informatics at the University of Cambridge, https://www-cmi.ch.cam.ac.uk/centre-molecular-informatics

Publications

Harvesting Chemical Information from the Internet Using a Distributed Approach:  ChemXtreme
M Karthikeyan, S Krishnan, AK Pandey, A Bender
– J Chem Inf Model
(2006)
46,
452
Characterizing bitterness: identification of key structural features and development of a classification model.
S Rodgers, RC Glen, A Bender
– J Chem Inf Model
(2006)
46,
569
Diversity Oriented Synthesis: A Challenge for Synthetic Chemists
A Bender, S Fergus, WRJD Galloway, FG Glansdorp, DM Marsden, RL Nicholson, RJ Spandl, GL Thomas, EE Wyatt, RC Glen, DR Spring
– Ernst Schering Research Foundation workshop
(2006)
58,
47
Molecular similarity searching using COSMO screening charges (COSMO/3PP)
A Bender, A Klamt, K Wichmann, M Thormann, RC Glen
– Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(2005)
3695 LNBI,
175
Screening for dihydrofolate reductase inhibitors using MOLPRINT 2D, a fast fragment-based method employing the naïve Bayesian classifier: limitations of the descriptor and the importance of balanced chemistry in training and test sets.
A Bender, HY Mussa, RC Glen
– Journal of biomolecular screening
(2005)
10,
658
Discussion of measures of enrichment in virtual screening: Comparing the information content of descriptors with increasing levels of sophistication
A Bender, RC Glen
– JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING
(2005)
45,
1369
A Discussion of Measures of Enrichment in Virtual Screening:  Comparing the Information Content of Descriptors with Increasing Levels of Sophistication
A Bender, RC Glen
– Journal of chemical information and modeling
(2005)
45,
1369
Assessment of structural diversity in combinatorial synthesis
S Fergus, A Bender, DR Spring
– Curr Opin Chem Biol
(2005)
9,
304
General melting point prediction based on a diverse compound data set and artificial neural networks
M Karthikeyan, RC Glen, A Bender
– J Chem Inf Model
(2005)
45,
581
Encoding and decoding graphical chemical structures as two-dimensional (PDF417) barcodes.
M Karthikeyan, A Bender
– Journal of chemical information and modeling
(2005)
45,
572
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01223 762983

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