About the Seminar
"Drug Discovery From the Inside"
Drug discovery is unlike any other industry, surviving even though 90% of its best ideas fail. Its unusual features will be described (both the scientific and organizational ones), and some advice for those starting out in the field will be offered.
About the Speaker
I graduated from Hendrix College and then Duke (PhD in organic chemistry), then did a Humboldt Foundation post-doc in Germany (Darmstadt). After that, I worked for 8 years at Schering-Plough (CNS drug discovery), then 10 years at Bayer (metabolics drug discovery), 10 years at Vertex (a mix of antibiotics, new drug discovery technology work, approaches to "undruggable targets" in oncology), and since summer 2017 at NIBR (chemical biology, more "hard target" work). I started "In the Pipeline" in January 2002, and it's now the oldest and longest-running science blog on the internet.