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

Molecular Similarity Searching Using COSMO Screening Charges (COSMO/3PP)
A Bender, A Klamt, K Wichmann, M Thormann, RC Glen
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics
(2005)
3695
Screening for dihydrofolate reductase inhibitors using MOLPRINT 2D, a fast fragment-based method employing the naïve Bayesian classifier: limitations of the descriptor and the importance of balanced chemistry in training and test sets.
A Bender, HY Mussa, RC Glen
Journal of biomolecular screening
(2005)
10
Discussion of measures of enrichment in virtual screening: Comparing the information content of descriptors with increasing levels of sophistication
A Bender, RC Glen
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING
(2005)
45
Assessment of structural diversity in combinatorial synthesis
S Fergus, A Bender, DR Spring
Current Opinion in Chemical Biology
(2005)
9
General Melting Point Prediction Based on a Diverse Compound Data Set and Artificial Neural Networks
M Karthikeyan, RC Glen, A Bender
J Chem Inf Model
(2005)
45
Encoding and decoding graphical chemical structures as two-dimensional (PDF417) barcodes
M Karthikeyan, A Bender
J Chem Inf Model
(2005)
45
Molecular surface point environments for virtual screening and the elucidation of binding patterns (MOLPRINT 3D)
A Bender, HY Mussa, GS Gill, RC Glen
J Med Chem
(2004)
47
Molecular similarity: a key technique in molecular informatics.
A Bender, RC Glen
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
(2004)
2
Similarity Searching of Chemical Databases Using Atom Environment Descriptors (MOLPRINT 2D):  Evaluation of Performance
A Bender, HY Mussa, RC Glen, S Reiling
Journal of chemical information and computer sciences
(2004)
44
Similarity searching using atom environments, information gain based feature selection and the naive Bayesian classifier.
A Bender, S Reiling, HY Mussa, RC Glen
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2004)
227

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01223 762983

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