Antwerp Metropolitan Area
Drug discovery leader with track record in: • Corporate and start-up biotech environments • Medicinal chemistry, drug clinical candidate and PET tracer discovery • Neuroscience and Oncology therapeutic area • People leadership, coaching, mentoring, development • Project leadership, matrix leadership, leading cross-functional teams • Academic & pharma partnerships • Due diligence, investor relations, grant funding • Challenging targets including protein-protein interactions, enzymes, proteases, allosteric mechanisms • Antibody-drug conjugates • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applied to drug discovery • Working with CRO's worldwide • IP protection and patent writing
Responsible for the small molecule drug pipeline of Augustine Therapeutics
Responsible for the Augustine Tx portfolio, including medicinal chemistry and preclinical development.
Team leader and project leader in the Medicinal Chemistry Department with Neuroscience and Oncology focus.
Team leader of Belgium-based Hit Generation Team in the Neuroscience Medicinal Chemistry Department. Responsible for generating high quality, IP free chemical starting points for projects and driving innovation within the Neuroscience portfolio.