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

Improving Screening Efficiency through Iterative Screening Using Docking and Conformal Prediction.
F Svensson, U Norinder, A Bender
J Chem Inf Model
(2017)
57
A fragment profiling approach to inhibitors of the orphan $\textit{M. tuberculosis}$ P450 CYP144A1
MADELINE Kavanagh, J Chenge, AZEDINE Zoufir, K McLean, AG Coyne, ANDREAS Bender, A Munro, C Abell
Biochemistry
(2017)
56
Cancer Cell Line Profiler (CCLP): a webserver for the prediction of compound activity across the NCI60 panel
I Cortés-Ciriano, DS Murrell, B Chetrit, A Bender, T Malliavin, PJ Ballester
(2017)
Modeling Polypharmacological Profiles by Affinity Fingerprinting
A Peragovics, Z Simon, A Malnasi-Csizmadia, A Bender
Curr Pharm Des
(2017)
22
Neighbours of cancer-related proteins have key influence on pathogenesis and could increase the drug target space for anticancer therapies
D Módos, KC Bulusu, D Fazekas, J Kubisch, J Brooks, I Marczell, PM Szabó, T Vellai, P Csermely, K Lenti, A Bender, T Korcsmáros
npj Systems Biology and Applications
(2017)
3
Current Trends in Drug Sensitivity Prediction
I Cortes-Ciriano, LH Mervin, A Bender
Curr Pharm Des
(2017)
22
$\textit{In silico}$ target prediction for elucidating the mode of action of herbicides including prospective validation.
RK Chiddarwar, SG Rohrer, A Wolf, S Tresch, S Wollenhaupt, A Bender
J Mol Graph Model
(2017)
71
Modelling compound cytotoxicity using conformal prediction and PubChem HTS data.
F Svensson, U Norinder, A Bender
Toxicol Res (Camb)
(2017)
6
Rational design and evaluation of multi-target ligands at A1R, A2AR and PDE10A with therapeutic potential for neurodegenerative diseases
L Kalash, I Winfield, S Carvalho, G Ladds, A Bender
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2017)
254
Novel adamantanyl-based thiadiazolyl pyrazoles targeting EGFR in triple-negative breast cancer
A Sebastian, V Pandey, CD Mohan, YT Chia, S Rangappa, J Mathai, CP Baburajeev, S Paricharak, LH Mervin, KC Bulusu, JE Fuchs, A Bender, S Yamada, Basappa, PE Lobie, KS Rangappa
ACS omega
(2016)
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