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Summary: I am a versatile bench scientist with 25 years of experience in research, development and production of organic molecules that range from therapeutic drug candidates to high performance polymers. I have extensive experience with synthetic organic chemistry and its applications to a variety of areas including polymer synthesis, bioconjugation techniques, traditional medicinal chemistry, parallel medicinal chemistry, and catalysis. During my career in industry I have developed a wide range of experiences. For example, I have participated in research programs involving solid phase synthesis (DNA, peptides, and polymer assisted solution phase synthesis of drug candidates). As a member of several difference pharmaceutical research teams I was also actively engaged in structure based drug design through enzyme/receptor crystal structure analysis and molecular modeling. My synthetic organic chemistry experience has been primarily applied to discovery medicinal chemistry for improving compound activity through structure-activity relationships. However, I do have considerable experience working in a pre-development to development group for the optimization of synthetic methods in order to reduce steps and the cost of goods. Thus, I am very proficient in many analytical techniques and chromatographic purification methods on scales ranging from mg-kg size. I have gained a reputation as an innovative, well-organized team player who is flexible and comfortable working in an interdisciplinary atmosphere.
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