Vasanthanathan Poongavanam

Researcher at Department of Medicinal Chemistry; Preparative Medicinal Chemistry

E-mail:
vasanthanathan.poongavanam@scilifelab.uu.se
Visiting address:
Uppsala Biomedicinska Centrum, BMC, Husarg. 3
Postal address:
Box 574
751 23 UPPSALA

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Researcher at Department of Cell and Molecular Biology; Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

E-mail:
vasanthanathan.poongavanam@scilifelab.uu.se
Visiting address:
Husargatan 3
752 37 Uppsala
Postal address:
Box 596
751 24 UPPSALA

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Researcher at Department of Cell and Molecular Biology; Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

E-mail:
vasanthanathan.poongavanam@scilifelab.uu.se
Visiting address:
Husargatan 3
752 37 Uppsala
Postal address:
Box 596
751 24 UPPSALA

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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

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

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.

Vasanthanathan Poongavanam

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