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

MD-assisted approach for designing multi-target ligands at A2AR and PDE10A that elevate cyclic AMP
L Kalash, I Winfield, D Safitri, M Bermudez, R Glen, G Ladds, A Bender
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2018)
256
Analysing matched molecular pair transformations in drug discovery projects as a function of time and molecular environment
S Ashenden, T Kogej, O Engkvist, E Rivers, A Madin, K Goldberg, I Storer, A Bender
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2018)
256
Understanding drug and compound combinations and modelling synergy - Methods and applications
A Bender
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2018)
256
Gearing transcriptomics towards high-throughput screening: Compound shortlisting from gene expression using in silico information
N Aniceto, A Bender, F Nigsch
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2018)
256
Determining associations between transcriptomics and toxicity using co-expression network methods
B Alexander-Dann, T James, A Bender
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2018)
256
Information-derived adverse outcome pathways with a case study on structural cardiotoxicity
A Bender
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2018)
256
Discovery of a non-toxic [1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidin-7-one (WS-10) that modulates ABCB1-mediated multidrug resistance (MDR).
L Chang, M Xiao, L Yang, S Wang, S-Q Wang, A Bender, A Hu, Z-S Chen, B Yu, H-M Liu
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry
(2018)
26
Extending in Silico Protein Target Prediction Models to Include Functional Effects
LH Mervin, AM Afzal, L Brive, O Engkvist, A Bender
Frontiers in Pharmacology
(2018)
9
Can the inhibition of cytochrome P450 in aquatic invertebrates due to azole fungicides be estimated with in silico and in vitro models and extrapolated between species?
M Gottardi, JD Tyzack, A Bender, N Cedergreen
Aquat Toxicol
(2018)
201
A fast and quantitative method for post-translational modification and variant enabled mapping of peptides to genomes
CN Schlaffner, GJ Pirklbauer, A Bender, JAJ Steen, JS Choudhary
Journal of Visualized Experiments
(2018)
2018

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