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

A novel applicability domain technique for mapping predictive reliability across the chemical space of a QSAR: Reliability-density neighbourhood
N Aniceto, AA Freitas, A Bender, T Ghafourian
Journal of Cheminformatics
(2016)
8
Current Trends in Drug Sensitivity Prediction
I Cortes-Ciriano, LH Mervin, A Bender
Curr Pharm Des
(2016)
22
Diversity selection, screening and quantitative structure-activity relationships of osmolyte-like additive effects on the thermal stability of a monoclonal antibody
O-O Oyetayo, O Méndez-Lucio, A Bender, H Kiefer
European journal of pharmaceutical sciences : official journal of the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences
(2016)
97
Data-driven approaches used for compound library design, hit triage and bioactivity modeling in high-throughput screening
S Paricharak, O Méndez-Lucio, A Chavan Ravindranath, A Bender, AP IJzerman, GJP van Westen
Briefings in Bioinformatics
(2016)
19
Predicting Genes Involved in Human Cancer Using Network Contextual Information.
H Rahmani, H Blockeel, A Bender
Journal of integrative bioinformatics
(2016)
9
Simultaneous Prediction of four ATP-binding Cassette Transporters’ Substrates Using Multi-label QSAR
N Aniceto, AA Freitas, A Bender, T Ghafourian
Mol Inform
(2016)
35
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)
13
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)
56
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)
11
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
J Ethnopharmacol
(2016)
197

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