Dr. Warr has Masters and Doctors
degrees in chemistry from the University of Oxford, England. She
is a Chartered Chemist, a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Chemistry and a Fellow of the Chartered
Institute of Library and Information Professionals.
She has over 35 years of experience in information systems and research
computing including nearly 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry.
Before founding Wendy Warr & Associates in January 1992, she
was
Manager of Information Services for ICI Pharmaceuticals. more
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Dr.
Paola Gramatica
Dr. Paola Gramatica is Full
Professor
of Environmental Chemistry and Cultural Heritage, past-Associate
Professor of Organic Chemistry, at the University
of Insubria (Varese-Italy). She has been the head of QSAR
Research Unit
in Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology at the Department of
Structural and Functional Biology (DBSF) of Insubria University
(Varese) since 1995.
Her present research field is QSAR modelling of environmental
pollutants. She is author of more than one hundred peer-reviewed papers
in international journals (about 60 in QSAR field) and more than two
hundred presentations at many international and national meetings. more >>
Kathikeyan has been involved in
some pioneering initiatives in Cheminformatics in India. Few of these
initiatives are: moltable, The First Indian
Conference on Cheminformatics ICCI, January 22-24, 2007 held at
NCL, Pune and OpenAccess.
Karthikeyan's research interests
lie
in chemoinformatics, chemical data mining, bioinformatics, drug
discovery, organic chemistry and science & spirituality. He is
presently working on a Fellowship with Prof. Tropsha at the School
of Pharmacy of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
USA.
Dr.
Andreas Bender
Andreas is a Presidential
Postdoctoral Fellow with the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
in Cambridge, MA, working on projects related to ligand-based drug
design in the Lead Discovery Informatics group. His work comprises
descriptor and classification algorithm development and evaluation, as
well as applications to predict biological targets for small molecules
and approaches to chart chemical space and the relations among targets,
based on the similarities of their ligands.
Andreas received his PhD from
the University
of Cambridge (UK)
developing virtual screening methods working with Prof. Robert C. Glen
at the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics / Department of
Chemistry. He was a Cambridge Gates Scholar and a member of Darwin
College while at Cambridge. Andreas did his undergraduate studies in
Berlin, Dublin and Frankfurt as a German National Merit Foundation
scholar and is the author of 30 publications in the cheminformatics and
bioinformatics fields and referee for several journals in the area. more
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Kas is the Chief Scientific
Officer of
Strand Life Sciences. Prior to joining Strand, he was a Senior
Biosystems Engineer at Entelos Inc. where he headed the Collaborative
R&D group for the immunology products.
His research interests are in
modeling of disease states, systems biology and predictive ADME and
toxicology.
Mr. Thiru P. Reddy
Thiru is
Senior Vice President (SVP), Business Operations at Strand Life
Sciences.He has life sciences software product management and marketing
experience.
Prior to Strand, Thiru worked as Senior Systems Analyst at
Incyte Corp. where he project managed biological information management
system and was involved in design & development of their flagship
products. He held Lead Consultant position at Bayer Corp. for
developing a LIMS system for their biotechnology division. He has an
M.S. in Engineering from West Virginia University.
Former members of the
Editorial Team:
Shaillay
Kumar Dogra
Shaillay Kumar Dogra worked as a
Senior Scientist at Strand Life Sciences. He handled technical
marketing and support for Strand's in silico
modeling software products. He also worked as the Scientific Editor of
QSAR World.
