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

Side effect profile prediction: Computational tackling of big pharma's worst nightmare at an early stage
J Scheiber, JL Jenkins, A Bender, S Whitebread, J Hamon, L Urban, K Azzaoui, JH Nettles, M Glick, JW Davies
ABSTR PAP AM CHEM S
(2007)
234
Understanding False Positives in Reporter Gene Assays:  in Silico Chemogenomics Approaches To Prioritize Cell-Based HTS Data
TJ Crisman, CN Parker, JL Jenkins, J Scheiber, M Thoma, ZB Kang, R Kim, A Bender, JH Nettles, JW Davies, M Glick
J Chem Inf Model
(2007)
47
Modeling promiscuity based on in vitro safety pharmacology profiling data
K Azzaoui, J Hamon, B Faller, S Whitebread, E Jacoby, A Bender, JL Jenkins, L Urban
ChemMedChem
(2007)
2
Analysis of pharmacology data and the prediction of adverse drug reactions and off-target effects from chemical structure
A Bender, J Scheiber, M Glick, JW Davies, K Azzaoui, J Hamon, L Urban, S Whitebread, JL Jenkins
ChemMedChem
(2007)
2
"Plate cherry picking": a novel semi-sequential screening paradigm for cheaper, faster, information-rich compound selection.
TJ Crisman, JL Jenkins, CN Parker, WAG Hill, A Bender, Z Deng, JH Nettles, JW Davies, M Glick
Journal of Biomolecular Screening
(2007)
12
Support vector inductive logic programming outperforms the naive Bayes classifier and inductive logic programming for the classification of bioactive chemical compounds.
EO Cannon, A Amini, A Bender, MJE Sternberg, SH Muggleton, RC Glen, JBO Mitchell
Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design
(2007)
21
Flexible 3D pharmacophores as descriptors of dynamic biological space.
JH Nettles, JL Jenkins, C Williams, AM Clark, A Bender, Z Deng, JW Davies, M Glick
Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling
(2007)
26
Evolved cellular automata for protein secondary structure prediction imitate the determinants for folding observed in nature.
P Chopra, A Bender
In Silico Biology
(2007)
7
In silico target fishing: Predicting biological targets from chemical structure
JL Jenkins, A Bender, JW Davies
Drug Discovery Today Technologies
(2006)
3
Chapter 9 Molecular Similarity: Advances in Methods, Applications and Validations in Virtual Screening and QSAR.
A Bender, JL Jenkins, Q Li, SE Adams, EO Cannon, RC Glen
Annual reports in computational chemistry
(2006)
2

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