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.
- 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
Molecular surface point environments for virtual screening and the elucidation of binding patterns (MOLPRINT 3D)
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
(2004)
47
6569
(doi: 10.1021/jm049611i)
Molecular similarity: a key technique in molecular informatics
Organic & biomolecular chemistry
(2004)
2
3204
(doi: 10.1039/b409813g)
Similarity Searching of Chemical Databases Using Atom Environment Descriptors (MOLPRINT 2D): Evaluation of Performance
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
(2004)
44
1708
(doi: 10.1021/ci0498719)
Similarity searching using atom environments, information gain based feature selection and the naive Bayesian classifier.
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2004)
227
U907
Molecular similarity searching using atom environments, information-based feature selection, and a naive Bayesian classifier
Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences
(2003)
44
170
(doi: 10.1021/ci034207y)
Cutting edge approaches to drug design
Drug Discovery Today
(2003)
1
53
Properties and prediction of mitochondrial transit peptides from Plasmodium falciparum
Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology
(2003)
132
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