Professor Andreas Bender

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

Simultaneous Prediction of four ATP‐binding Cassette Transporters’ Substrates Using Multi‐label QSAR

N Aniceto, AA Freitas, A Bender, T Ghafourian

Mol Inform

(2016)

514

(doi: 10.1002/minf.201600036)

Analysis of Differential Efficacy and Affinity of GABAA (α1/α2) Selective Modulators.

QU Ain, RM Owen, K Omoto, R Torella, KC Bulusu, DC Pryde, RC Glen, JE Fuchs, A Bender

Molecular Pharmaceutics

(2016)

4001

(doi: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.6b00813)

Data-Driven Derivation of an "informer Compound Set" for Improved Selection of Active Compounds in High-Throughput Screening

S Paricharak, AP IJzerman, JL Jenkins, A Bender, F Nigsch

Journal of chemical information and modeling

(2016)

1622

(doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.6b00244)

Understanding Cytotoxicity and Cytostaticity in a High-Throughput Screening Collection

LH Mervin, Q Cao, IP Barrett, MA Firth, D Murray, L McWilliams, M Haddrick, M Wigglesworth, O Engkvist, A Bender

ACS Chemical Biology

(2016)

3007

(doi: 10.1021/acschembio.6b00538)

Understanding the mode-of-action of Cassia auriculata via in silico and in vivo studies towards validating it as a long term therapy for type II diabetes

F Mohd Fauzi, CM John, A Karunanidhi, HY Mussa, R Ramasamy, A Adam, A Bender

Journal of ethnopharmacology

(2016)

197

(doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2016.07.058)

Synthesis and in vitro evaluation of hydrazinyl phthalazines against malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum

G Subramanian, CP Babu Rajeev, CD Mohan, A Sinha, TTT Chu, S Anusha, H Ximei, JE Fuchs, A Bender, KS Rangappa, R Chandramohanadas, Basappa

Bioorg Med Chem Lett

(2016)

3300

(doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2016.05.049)

11th German Conference on Chemoinformatics (GCC 2015) : Fulda, Germany. 8-10 November 2015.

U Fechner, C de Graaf, AE Torda, S Güssregen, A Evers, H Matter, G Hessler, NJ Richmond, P Schmidtke, MHS Segler, MP Waller, S Pleik, J-E Shea, Z Levine, R Mullen, K van den Broek, M Epple, H Kuhn, A Truszkowski, A Zielesny, JH Fraaije, RS Gracia, SM Kast, KC Bulusu, A Bender, A Yosipof, O Nahum, H Senderowitz, T Krotzky, R Schulz, G Wolber, S Bietz, M Rarey, MO Zimmermann, A Lange, M Ruff, J Heidrich, I Onlia, TE Exner, FM Boeckler, M Bermudez, DS Firaha, O Hollóczki, B Kirchner, CS Tautermann, A Volkamer, S Eid, S Turk, F Rippmann, S Fulle, N Saleh, G Saladino, FL Gervasio, E Haensele, L Banting, DC Whitley, JS-D Oliveira Santos, R Bureau, T Clark, A Sandmann, H Lanig, P Kibies, J Heil, F Hoffgaard, R Frach, J Engel, S Smith, D Basu, D Rauh, O Kohlbacher, FM Boeckler, JW Essex, MS Bodnarchuk, GA Ross, AR Finkelmann, AH Göller, G Schneider, T Husch, C Schütter, A Balducci, M Korth, F Ntie-Kang, S Günther, W Sippl, LM Mbaze, F Ntie-Kang, CV Simoben, LL Lifongo, F Ntie-Kang, P Judson, J Barilla, MV Lokajíček, H Pisaková, P Simr, N Kireeva, A Petrov, D Ostroumov, VP Solovev, VS Pervov, N-O Friedrich, K Sommer, M Rarey, J Kirchmair, E Proschak, J Weber, D Moser, L Kalinowski, J Achenbach, M Mackey, T Cheeseright, G Renner, G Renner, TC Schmidt, J Schram, M Egelkraut-Holtus, A van Oeyen, T Kalliokoski, D Fourches, A Ibezim, CJ Mbah, UM Adikwu, NJ Nwodo, A Steudle, BB Masek, S Nagy, D Baker, F Soltanshahi, R Dorfman, K Dubrucq, H Patel, O Koch, F Mrugalla, SM Kast, QU Ain, JE Fuchs, RM Owen, K Omoto, R Torella, DC Pryde, R Glen, A Bender, P Hošek, V Spiwok, LH Mervin, I Barrett, M Firth, DC Murray, L McWilliams, Q Cao, O Engkvist, D Warszycki, M Śmieja, AJ Bojarski, N Aniceto, A Freitas, T Ghafourian, G Herrmann, V Eigner-Pitto, A Naß, R Kurczab, AJ Bojarski, A Lange, MB Günther, S Hennig, FM Büttner, C Schall, A Sievers-Engler, F Ansideri, P Koch, T Stehle, S Laufer, FM Böckler, B Zdrazil, F Montanari, GF Ecker, C Grebner, A Hogner, J Ulander, K Edman, V Guallar, C Tyrchan, J Ulander, C Tyrchan, W Klute, F Bergström, C Kramer, QD Nguyen, R Frach, P Kibies, S Strohfeldt, S Böttcher, T Pongratz, D Horinek, SM Kast, B Rupp, R Al-Yamori, M Lisurek, R Kühne, F Furtado, K van den Broek, L Wessjohann, M Mathea, K Baumann, SZ Mohamad-Zobir, X Fu, T-P Fan, A Bender, MA Kuhn, CA Sotriffer, A Zoufir, X Li, L Mervin, E Berg, M Polokoff, WD Ihlenfeldt, WD Ihlenfeldt, J Pretzel, Z Alhalabi, R Fraczkiewicz, M Waldman, RD Clark, N Shaikh, P Garg, A Kos, H-J Himmler, A Sandmann, C Jardin, H Sticht, TB Steinbrecher, M Dahlgren, D Cappel, T Lin, L Wang, G Krilov, R Abel, R Friesner, W Sherman, IA Pöhner, J Panecka, RC Wade, S Bietz, KT Schomburg, M Hilbig, M Rarey, C Jäger, V Wieczorek, LM Westerhoff, OY Borbulevych, H-U Demuth, M Buchholz, D Schmidt, T Rickmeyer, T Krotzky, P Kolb, S Mittal, E Sánchez-García, MS Nogueira, TB Oliveira, FB da Costa, TJ Schmidt

Journal of cheminformatics

(2016)

(doi: 10.1186/s13321-016-0119-5)

Trisubstituted-Imidazoles Induce Apoptosis in Human Breast Cancer Cells by Targeting the Oncogenic PI3K/Akt/mTOR Signaling Pathway

CD Mohan, V Srinivasa, S Rangappa, L Mervin, S Mohan, S Paricharak, S Baday, F Li, MK Shanmugam, A Chinnathambi, ME Zayed, SA Alharbi, A Bender, G Sethi, Basappa, KS Rangappa

PloS one

(2016)

e0153155

(doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153155)