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Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

 

Professor of 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.

Personal Website

  • 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

Transcriptomics predicts compound synergy in drug and natural product treated glioblastoma cells
L-L Pruteanu, L Kopanitsa, D Módos, E Kletnieks, E Samarova, A Bender, LD Gomez, DS Bailey
– PLoS ONE
(2020)
15,
e0239551
Identification of Intrinsic Drug Resistance and Its Biomarkers in High-Throughput Pharmacogenomic and CRISPR Screens.
I Ayestaran, A Galhoz, E Spiegel, B Sidders, JR Dry, F Dondelinger, A Bender, U McDermott, F Iorio, MP Menden
– Patterns (N Y)
(2020)
1,
100065
Systematic analysis of protein targets associated with adverse events of drugs from clinical trials and post-marketing reports
I Smit, A Afzal, C Allen, F Svensson, T Hanser, A Bender
(2020)
2020.06.12.135939
QSAR-derived affinity fingerprints (part 2): modeling performance for potency prediction.
I Cortés-Ciriano, C Škuta, A Bender, D Svozil
– Journal of cheminformatics
(2020)
12,
41
QSAR-derived affinity fingerprints (part 1): fingerprint construction and modeling performance for similarity searching, bioactivity classification and scaffold hopping.
C Škuta, I Cortés-Ciriano, W Dehaen, P Kříž, GJP van Westen, IV Tetko, A Bender, D Svozil
– J Cheminform
(2020)
12,
39
Neurochemical underpinning of hemodynamic response to neuropsychiatric drugs: A meta- and cluster analysis of preclinical studies.
LH Mervin, E Mitricheva, NK Logothetis, A Bifone, A Bender, HR Noori
– J Cereb Blood Flow Metab
(2020)
41,
874
EMDIP: An Entropy Measure to Discover Important Proteins in PPI networks.
H Bashiri, H Rahmani, V Bashiri, D Módos, A Bender
– Computers in biology and medicine
(2020)
120,
103740
Establishing GPCR Targets of hMAO Active Anthraquinones from Cassia obtusifolia Linn Seeds Using in Silico and in Vitro Methods
P Paudel, SH Seong, FM Fauzi, A Bender, HA Jung, JS Choi
– ACS Omega
(2020)
5,
7705
Prediction and mechanistic analysis of Drug-Induced Liver Injury (DILI) based on chemical structure
A Liu, M Walter, P Wright, AM Bartosik, D Dolciami, A Elbasir, H Yang, A Bender
(2020)
Chapter 5 Concepts and Applications of Conformal Prediction in Computational Drug Discovery
I Cortés-Ciriano, A Bender
(2020)
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Research Group

Research Interest Groups

Telephone number

01223 762983

Email address

ab454@cam.ac.uk