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.
- 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 the prediction of organism-level toxicity through integration of chemical, protein target and cytotoxicity qHTS data†
Toxicology research
(2016)
5
883
(doi: 10.1039/c5tx00406c)
Analysis of Iterative Screening with Stepwise Compound Selection Based on Novartis In-house HTS Data
ACS chemical biology
(2016)
11
1255
(doi: 10.1021/acschembio.6b00029)
Global Mapping of Traditional Chinese Medicine into Bioactivity Space and Pathways Annotation Improves Mechanistic Understanding and Discovers Relationships between Therapeutic Action (Sub)classes
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
(2016)
2016
2106465
(doi: 10.1155/2016/2106465)
Systematic selection of small molecules to promote differentiation of embryonic stem cells and experimental validation for generating cardiomyocytes.
Cell death discovery
(2016)
2
16007
(doi: 10.1038/cddiscovery.2016.7)
Current Trends in Drug Sensitivity Prediction
CURRENT PHARMACEUTICAL DESIGN
(2016)
22
6918
Nano-MoO3-mediated synthesis of bioactive thiazolidin-4-ones acting as anti-bacterial agents and their mode-of-action analysis using in silico target prediction, docking and similarity searching
New Journal of Chemistry
(2016)
40
2189
(doi: 10.1039/c5nj02729b)
Nano-cuprous oxide catalyzed one-pot synthesis of a carbazole-based STAT3 inhibitor: a facile approach via intramolecular C-N bond formation reactions
Rsc Advances
(2016)
6
36775
(doi: 10.1039/c6ra01906d)
Improved Chemical Structure–Activity Modeling Through Data Augmentation
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
(2015)
55
2682
(doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.5b00570)
ARWAR: A network approach for predicting Adverse Drug Reactions.
Comput Biol Med
(2015)
68
101
How Consistent are Publicly Reported Cytotoxicity Data? Large-Scale Statistical Analysis of the Concordance of Public Independent Cytotoxicity Measurements
ChemMedChem
(2015)
11
57
(doi: 10.1002/cmdc.201500424)
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