Rafał Mendowicz

About

6 years professional experience within pharmaceutical R&D as a chemist. Flexible, motivated, reliable and quality-driven. Eager to learn new skills,. Interested in lab-based work (synthesis, QC) as well as cross functional positions, QA specialist, CRA. Fascinated by the intersection of chemistry, biology and medicine.

Experience

• Associate Scientist Organic Chemistry at Galapagos
  Mar 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 5 mos

• Research Associate at Aligos Therapeutics
  Feb 2019 - Jan 2020 · 1 yr

  As a part of NovAliX insourcing team based on the site of the client (Aligos Therapeutics) in Leuven my work duties concerned synthesis of bio-active compounds targeting liver viral/oncological diseases. Responsibilities: - carrying out and monitoring reactions (LCMS, TLC) - purification of obtained compounds (normal and reverse phase chromatography) - characterization of products by classical analytical methods (NMR, LCMS) - writing up experimental procedures

• Voluntary Research Associate at KU Leuven
  Sep 2018 - Dec 2018 · 4 mos

  Research project: Novel Activity-based Probes for Serine Proteases Prof. Steven Verhelst research group

• Lodz University of Technology (2 yrs 7 mos)
  • MSc at Institute of Organic Chemistry
    Feb 2017 - Sep 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos

    MSc project: Synthesis of 1-acylglycerol-2-methoxy-3-dithiophosphates as Precursors of Photoaffinity Lysophospholipids Probes (Feb 2018 - Sept 2018) Synthesis of Benzophenone-Derived Precursors of Photoaffinity Probes (extended, Feb 2017 - Jul 2017) Dr. Błażewska's research group

  • BSc at Institute of Organic Chemistry
    Mar 2016 - Feb 2017 · 1 yr

    BSc project: Synthesis of Benzophenone-Derived Precursors of Photoaffinity Probes (Mar 2016 - Feb 2017) Dr. Błażewska's research group

• Intern at Leiden University
  Aug 2017 - Nov 2017 · 4 mos

  Research project: Bio-orthogonal photoaffinity probes for PARP Prof. Overkleeft's BioSyn group.