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.

Personal Website

  • 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

How similar are those molecules after all? Use two descriptors and you will have three different answers.
A Bender
Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery
(2010)
5
Bayesian Methods in Virtual Screening and Chemical Biology
A Bender
Methods in Molecular Biology
(2010)
672
Nonsubjective clustering scheme for multiconformer databases
AB Yongye, A Bender, K Martinez-Mayorga
ABSTR PAP AM CHEM S
(2010)
240
Scaffold diversity analysis using scaffold retrieval curves and an entropy-based measure
JL Medina-Franco, K Martinez-Mayorga, A Bender, T Scior
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2010)
240
A novel chemogenomics analysis of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and their ligands: a potential strategy for receptor de-orphanization
E van der Horst, JE Peironcely, AP Ijzerman, MW Beukers, JR Lane, HWT van Vlijmen, MTM Emmerich, Y Okuno, A Bender
BMC Bioinformatics
(2010)
11
Dynamic clustering threshold reduces conformer ensemble size while maintaining a biologically relevant ensemble.
AB Yongye, A Bender, K Martínez-Mayorga
Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design
(2010)
24
Prospective Validation of a Comprehensive In silico hERG Model and its Applications to Commercial Compound and Drug Databases
MR Doddareddy, EC Klaasse, Shagufta, AP Ijzerman, A Bender
Chemmedchem
(2010)
5
Mining protein dynamics from sets of crystal structures using "consensus structures".
GJP van Westen, JK Wegner, A Bender, AP Ijzerman, HWT van Vlijmen
Protein Science
(2010)
19
Metabolite identification pipeline based on MS fragmentation
M Rojas-Cherto, JE Peironcely, PT Kasper, A Bender, J-L Faulon, T Reijmers, L Coulier, R Vreeken, T Hankemeier
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2010)
239
Predicting the functions of proteins in Protein-Protein Interaction networks from global information
H Rahmani, H Blockeel, A Bender
PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MACHINE LEARNING IN SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
(2010)
8

Research Interest Groups

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01223 762983

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