Dr. V. N. Viswanadhan, Director and Head of Computational Chemistry

Dr. Viswanadhan has had extensive experience (over 25 years) in molecular modeling and drug design in pharmaceutical industry. He obtained his Ph. D. in molecular biophysics at University Madras in 1983 and post-doctoral work at Texas A&M University and University of Akron (USA). He worked as a scientist at National Cancer Institute, Bethesda (USA) prior to working in the pharmaceutical industry. His research at Amgen and Gensia-Psicor focused on rational drug design and molecular modeling, supporting pre-clinical drug discovery. He is the author or co-author of over sixty publications in the field of molecular modeling and computational chemistry. He is the author of a widely quoted book on combinatorial library design and holds several patents in the area. His publications and patents dealt drug discovery targets such as kinases, proteases, hydroxylases and ion channel targets. Several of the compounds he worked on are in advanced stages of pre-clinical/clinical development. He is a member American Chemical Society and a reviewer for ACS journals on all aspects of pre-clinical drug discovery.