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

Characterizing bitterness: Identification of key structural features and development of a classification model
S Rodgers, RC Glen, A Bender
J Chem Inf Model
(2006)
46
Diversity Oriented Synthesis: A Challenge for Synthetic Chemists
A Bender, S Fergus, WRJD Galloway, FG Glansdorp, DM Marsden, RL Nicholson, RJ Spandl, GL Thomas, EE Wyatt, RC Glen, DR Spring
Ernst Schering Foundation Symposium Proceedings
(2006)
58
Molecular similarity searching using COSMO screening charges (COSMO/3PP)
A Bender, A Klamt, K Wichmann, M Thormann, RC Glen
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(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
J CHEM INF MODEL
(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
Journal of chemical information and modeling
(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

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01223 762983

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