Expert Details
Structural Based Drug Design, Docking and MD Simulations, Chemoinformatics and Bioinformatics
ID: 725675
California, USA
He has extensive experience in small molecule drug discovery.
He consulted on Ligand-protein binding mode analysis for a drug discovery company located in South San Francisco. He has references available upon request.
Education
Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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Year: 1999 | Degree: PhD | Subject: Molecular and computatinal Biology | Institution: University of California at Berkeley |
Work History
Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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Years: 2001 to 2008 | Employer: Plexxikon Inc | Title: Sr. Scientist | Department: Informatics |
Responsibilities:He routinely applied computational chemistry methods to support drug discovery, optimization, and development in medicinal chemistry project team settings. He made significant contributions to multiple projects which led to clinical compounds, favorable licensing or financing deals. He was a key player of Plexxikon’s BRaf team which discovered a specific BRaf V600E mutant inhibitor, PLX4032, which now is in Phase I clinical trial. Hiss research has resulted in multiple publications and several U.S. patents and patent applications. He led an interdisciplinary team of chemists, crystallographer, molecular biologists and assay biologists to discover small molecule drugs to combat cancer. |
Additional Experience
Expert Witness Experience |
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He has 8 years of experience in structure-based drug design, cheminformatics, and scientific programming. Skills includes docking, molecular dynamics simulations, data management and multiple variable analysis. ADMET prediction, data classification. |
Marketing Experience |
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Small molecule drug discovery and design. Kinase. Renin. |
Other Relevant Experience |
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Chemmoinformatics and cooperate data management infrastructure. |
Language Skills
Language | Proficiency |
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Chinese | My native language is Chinese |