Biography & Research:
I am currently Chief Scientific Officer of In Silico Biosciences, a company that provides mechanistic disease modeling services in CNS Drug discovery & Development since 2002. After an undergraduate degree in physics (theoretical quantum-mechanics) and a PhD in Biophysics I got a Bachelor Degree in Medicine, a Master in Pharmaceutical Sciences, and a Pharma Executive MBA at Drexel University in Philadelphia. I worked for 17 years with Dr. Paul Janssen, probably the greatest drug hunter in history at the Janssen Research Foundation (part of J&J) heading the Alzheimer Discovery research with programs in tangle and b-amyloid pathology and supported the successful clinical development of galantamine. I am passionate about the need for more translational Quantitative Systems Pharmacology modeling & simulation along the whole Drug R&D process to reduce the failure rate of clinical trials and to get better drugs faster to the right patients