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I am currently a research scientist at F. Hoffmann-La Roche. where I contribute chemoinformatics, computational and modeling expertise to drug discovery projects.
I got my PhD in December 2005 from the University of Sheffield, UK where I worked on "Chemoinformatics Methods for HTS and Profiling Data Analysis" in the Chemoinformatics Research Group (CIRG) of the Information Studies department . The Project was supervised by Prof. Peter Willett and sponsored by the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research.
I then joined the laboratory of Professor Brian K. Shoichet, department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco as a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow where I was interested in relating proteins through the statistical similarity of their ligands. The idea is to use the chemical similarity among ligand-sets as a proxy to the pharmacological similarities of the protein targets (e.g. SEA online prediction tool).
I spend the returning phase of the Marie Curie fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Didier Rognan in the Pharmacy department of the Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg, France where I work on tools to compare and cluster protein binding sites.