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

Handbook of Chemoinformatics Algorithms
(2010)
Preface
J-L Faulon, A Bender
(2010)
Compound bioactivities go public
A Bender
Nature Chemical Biology
(2010)
6
Scaffold diversity analysis of compound data sets using an entropy-based measure
JL Medina-Franco, K Martinez-Mayorga, A Bender, T Scior
Molecular Informatics
(2009)
28
A Scenario Implementation in R for SubtypeDiscovery Examplified on Chemoinformatics Data
F Colas, I Meulenbelt, JJ Houwing-Duistermaat, M Kloppenburg, I Watt, SA van Rooden, M Visser, J Marinus, EO Cannon, A Bender, JJ van Hilten, PE Slagboom, JN Kok
Communications in Computer and Information Science
(2009)
17
Alpha shapes applied to molecular shape characterization exhibit novel properties compared to established shape descriptors.
JA Wilson, A Bender, T Kaya, PA Clemons
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
(2009)
49
Chemogenomics: Looking at biology through the lens of chemistry
MR Doddareddy, GJP van Westen, E van der Horst, JE Peironcely, F Corthals, AP Ijzerman, M Emmerich, JL Jenkins, A Bender
Statistical Analysis and Data Mining The ASA Data Science Journal
(2009)
2
A quantitative bgl operon model for E. coli requires bglF conformational change for sugar transport
P Chopra, A Bender
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics
(2009)
5121 LNBI
Multi-parameter phenotypic profiling: using cellular effects to characterize small-molecule compounds.
Y Feng, TJ Mitchison, A Bender, DW Young, JA Tallarico
Nature reviews. Drug discovery
(2009)
8
Enhancing search space diversity in multi-objective evolutionary drug molecule design using niching
JW Kruisselbrink, A Aleman, MTM Emmerich, AP IJzerman, A Bender, T Bäck, E Van Der Horst
Proceedings of the 11th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Gecco 2009
(2009)

Research Interest Groups

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01223 762983

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