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

Experimental validation of in silico target predictions on synergistic protein targets
I Cortes-Ciriano, A Koutsoukas, O Abian, A Bender, A Velazquez-Campoy
Journal of cheminformatics
(2013)
5
Chemogenomics approaches to rationalising compound action of traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic medicines
FM Fauzi, A Koutsoukas, R Lowe, K Joshi, T-P Fan, A Bender
Journal of Cheminformatics
(2013)
5
Revised classification of kinases based on bioactivity data: the importance of data density and choice of visualization
S Paricharak, T Klenka, M Augustin, UA Patel, A Bender
Journal of Cheminformatics
(2013)
5
Significantly Improved HIV Inhibitor Efficacy Prediction Employing Proteochemometric Models Generated From Antivirogram Data
GJP van Westen, A Hendriks, JK Wegner, AP Ijzerman, HWT van Vlijmen, A Bender
Plos Computational Biology
(2013)
9
Chemogenomics approaches to rationalizing the mode-of-action of traditional chinese and ayurvedic medicines
F Mohd Fauzi, A Koutsoukas, R Lowe, K Joshi, T-P Fan, RC Glen, A Bender
J Chem Inf Model
(2013)
53
Experimental validation of in silico target predictions on synergistic protein targets
I Cortes-Ciriano, A Koutsoukas, O Abian, RC Glen, A Velazquez-Campoy, A Bender
RSC Medicinal Chemistry
(2013)
4
Efficient calculation of compound similarity based on maximum common subgraphs and its application to prediction of gene transcript levels
RJPV Berlo, W Winterbach, MJLD Groot, A Bender, PJT Verheijen, MJT Reinders, DD Ridder
International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications
(2013)
9
Linking Ayurveda and Western medicine by integrative analysis
FM Fauzi, A Koutsoukas, R Lowe, K Joshi, T-P Fan, RC Glen, A Bender
Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine
(2013)
4
Using multiobjective optimization and energy minimization to design an isoform-selective ligand of the 14-3-3 protein
H Sanchez-Faddeev, MTM Emmerich, FJ Verbeek, AH Henry, S Grimshaw, HP Spaink, HW Van Vlijmen, A Bender
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(2012)
7610
Cheminformatics
JK Wegner, A Sterling, R Guha, A Bender, JL Faulon, J Hastings, N O'Boyle, J Overington, H Van Vlijmen, E Willighagen
Communications of the ACM
(2012)
55

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