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Some Thoughts on Biotech vs Pharma for Computational Chemists

Practical Cheminformatics

A recent editorial by Dean Brown in J Med Chem and follow-up posts by Keith Hornberger and Derek Lowe prompted me to think about how we train computational chemists and cheminformaticians for careers in drug discovery. It also brought to mind some unique differences between how computational chemistry is practiced in biotech and pharma.

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Women in Stem with Dr Rachel Lagiakos

Drug Target Review

Working at the intersection of medicinal and computational chemistry as an early adopter of integrating in silico tools into the discovery process, I’ve seen first hand the technological advances that have been made over the past five-plus years. She is an active voice for diversity and inclusion in the Sciences.