Molecular Modeling and Chemical Software and Data Base Systems (1158)
Expertise
Molecular and computer modeling of chemical materials and complexes.
Computational chemistry and building complex chemical data bases.
Medicinal chemistry and theoretical drug discovery.
Highly proficient in library sciences, literature searching, and data mining.
Led laboratories in Electronic Notebook utilization.
Expert in patent searching, patent mining and patent education.
Highly skilled organic chemist.
Experience
June 2003 to Present: Consultant
Specializing in patent searching and scientific literature searching services, as well as patent prosecution services. Passed Patent Bar Examination October 2003.
May 2001 to May 2003: Vice President, Cheminformatics Solutions
Software startup company focused on developing software for pharmaceutical process development. Responsible for design and development of ChemSpire chemistry engine and supervised development effort based in Mumbai, India.
November 2000 to April 2001: Senior Consultant, Deltasoft Inc.
Responsible for project management and custom software development. Developed custom chemistry applications that integrate MDL (ISIS) and Synopsis chemistry components with Microsoft Office for use on the scientific desktop. Developed custom chemical data registration systems.
Transcell Technologies
2000 -- Director of Chemistry: Responsible for supervising medicinal chemistry, analytical chemistry, molecular modeling, and information services. Managed both the vancomycin and macrolide synthesis programs.
2000 -- Senior Director of Chemistry: Managed Oracle database system and supervised work of our outside computer consultants. Supervised medicinal chemistry, analytical chemistry, molecular modeling, and information services. Managed both the vancomycin and macrolide synthesis programs.
1998 -- Director of Robotics, Informatics and Analytical Systems: Responsible for combinatorial chemistry, analytical chemistry, and information services (10 person effort) using the IRORI Accutag synthesis system. Over fifty potent antibacterial peptidoglycan synthesis inhibitors were identified, approximately 200 compounds with antibacterial activity were discovered.
June 1996 to March 1998: Assistant Director of Chemistry, Transcell Technologies Inc. American Cyanamid Co.: Group Leader, Computational Chemistry, Level 10,
Started the molecular modeling effort at Cyanamid in 1988 and the successful application of modeling techniques to compound design led to an expanded effort and the formation of a molecular modeling group in 1995. Editor of Chemical Highlights 1981 to 1983: A bimonthly publication of abstracts from the current chemical literature generated by members of the Stork research group.
Honors & Publications
Many patents
Awards
Scientific Achievement Award, American Cyanamid's highest award for scientific research.
Diligent Digger Award, for the pursuit of excellence in Discovery research
Award of Excellence, for contributions to ASSERT herbicide
Presidential Fellow, The Ohio State University
Evans Lecture invited poster session, The Ohio State University
Upjohn Fellow, The Ohio State University
Tulane Scholar, Tulane University
Education
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Columbia University
Ph.D., Synthetic Organic Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus
B.S. with Honors in Chemistry, Tulane University, New Orleans