Medicinal Chemistry & Computer Aided Drug Designing and Drug Delivery

Biography

Thorsten Nowak completed his PhD from the University of Cambridge (UK) in the areas of aldol methodology and natural product synthesis. In 1996, he joined AstraZeneca where he worked on all stages of drug discovery from target to candidate selection in medicinal chemistry as team leader and project manager. His keen interest in new technologies motivated a career move from big pharma to platform technology business in 2012 when he joined C4X Discovery. In his current role, he is responsible for all internal drug discovery projects at C4X Discovery as well as continued development of the technology in the context of application to drug discovery.

Abstract

Abstract : Conformational design in medicinal chemistry - An important under-utilised opportunity