Dominique Swinnen

Director, Medicinal Chemistry at UCB

Brussels Metropolitan Area

About

A creative, enthusiastic and motivated medicinal chemist with a strong experience in leading the progression of small molecules to drug candidates. Leading a team of medicinal chemists in targets-to-drug discovery projects in an entrepreneurial and highly dynamic environment. Specialties: Medicinal Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Chemistry Scale-up

Experience

  • UCB (13 yrs 9 mos)
    • Head of Chemical Automation and Digitalisation
      Jun 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

      Participate in the digital transformation of UCB's drug discovery of new chemical entities.

    • Director Enabling Technologies
      Jan 2019 - May 2023 · 4 yrs 5 mos

      Lead a group to evaluate, implement and use novel chemistry technologies, such as flow chemistry, photochemistry, high throughput library synthesis to enable and accelerate drug discovery of new chemical entities.

    • Associate Director, Medicinal Chemistry
      Oct 2012 - Jan 2019 · 6 yrs 4 mos

      Lead a group of Medicinal chemists for Hit to Lead and Lead Optimization activities of various therapeutic programs in immunology or CNS disease indications.

  • Associate Director, Head of Medicinal Chemistry - Geneva Research Center at Merck Serono
    Dec 2007 - Sep 2012 · 4 yrs 10 mos

  • Senior Scientist at Serono
    1999 - 2006 · 7 yrs