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

Synthesis, biological evaluation and in silico and in vitro mode-of-action analysis of novel dihydropyrimidones targeting PPAR-γ
H Bharathkumar, S Paricharak, KR Dinesh, KS Siveen, JE Fuchs, S Rangappa, CD Mohan, N Mohandas, AP Kumar, G Sethi, A Bender, B Basappa, KS Rangappa
Rsc Advances
(2014)
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Comparative mode-of-action analysis following manual and automated phenotype detection inXenopus laevis
G Drakakis, AE Hendry, K Hanson, SC Brewerton, MJ Bodkin, DA Evans, GN Wheeler, A Bender
RSC Medicinal Chemistry
(2014)
5
Are phylogenetic trees suitable for chemogenomics analyses of bioactivity data sets: the importance of shared active compounds and choosing a suitable data embedding method, as exemplified on Kinases.
S Paricharak, T Klenka, M Augustin, UA Patel, A Bender
J Cheminform
(2013)
5
How Diverse Are Diversity Assessment Methods? A Comparative Analysis and Benchmarking of Molecular Descriptor Space
A Koutsoukas, S Paricharak, WRJD Galloway, DR Spring, AP Ijzerman, RC Glen, D Marcus, A Bender
Journal of chemical information and modeling
(2013)
54
Abstract B96: Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of a novel allosteric inhibitor of HSET that damages cancer cells with supernumerary centrosomes.
CA Watts, FM Richards, A Bender, PJ Bond, O Korb, O Kern, M Riddick, P Owen, RM Myers, J Raff, F Gergely, DI Jodrell, SV Ley
Molecular Cancer Therapeutics
(2013)
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Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of an allosteric inhibitor of HSET that targets cancer cells with supernumerary centrosomes
CA Watts, FM Richards, A Bender, PJ Bond, O Korb, O Kern, M Riddick, P Owen, RM Myers, J Raff, F Gergely, DI Jodrell, SV Ley
Chem Biol
(2013)
20
Experimental Confirmation of New Drug–Target Interactions Predicted by Drug Profile Matching
L Végner, Á Peragovics, L Tombor, B Jelinek, P Czobor, A Bender, Z Simon, A Málnási-Csizmadia
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
(2013)
56
Extensions to In Silico Bioactivity Predictions Using Pathway Annotations and Differential Pharmacology Analysis: Application to Xenopus laevis Phenotypic Readouts
S Liggi, G Drakakis, AE Hendry, KM Hanson, SC Brewerton, GN Wheeler, MJ Bodkin, DA Evans, A Bender
Molecular informatics
(2013)
32
Benchmarking of protein descriptor sets in proteochemometric modeling (part 2): modeling performance of 13 amino acid descriptor sets.
GJ van Westen, RF Swier, I Cortes-Ciriano, JK Wegner, JP Overington, AP Ijzerman, HW van Vlijmen, A Bender
J Cheminform
(2013)
5
Benchmarking of protein descriptor sets in proteochemometric modeling (part 2): modeling performance of 13 amino acid descriptor sets
GJ van Westen, RF Swier, JK Wegner, AP Ijzerman, HW van Vlijmen, A Bender
J Cheminform
(2013)
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