Vasanthanathan Poongavanam

Short presentation

Docent in Chemistry (2024) from Uppsala University and PhD in Computational Chemistry (2010) from the University of Copenhagen. Currently employed as a Computational Chemist at the DDD platform, SciLifeLab, Uppsala (https://www.scilifelab.se/platforms/ddd). Research interests focus on applying computational chemistry and artificial intelligence to accelerate drug discovery. He has authored more than 70 scientific publications, edited three books, and contributed chapters to four others.

Keywords

  • artifical intelligence
  • binding free energy calculations
  • computational chemistry
  • computer aided drug discovery
  • dna-encoded libraries
  • drug discovery and development platform scilifelab
  • predictive modeling
  • scilifelab

Biography

Previous Positions:

Forskare:
- Department of Chemistry-BMC, Uppsala University (2020-2024)

Postdoctoral Positions:
- Department of Chemistry-BMC, Uppsala University (2016-2020)
- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark (2013-2015)
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria (2010-2011)

Education:

- Docent in Chemistry, TekNat, Uppsala University (2024)
- PhD in Computational/Medicinal Chemistry, University of Copenhagen (2010)

Research

Research focuses on applying computational chemistry and artificial intelligence methods to drive drug discovery projects.

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Vasanthanathan Poongavanam

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