Accomplished pharmaceutical R&D executive with a passion for discovering transformational small molecule therapeutics to help patients address unmet medical need. Currently serving as a R&D executive scientific advisor/drug discovery consultant. Significant experience leading medicinal chemistry teams and setting research strategies across a broad range of therapeutic areas, and target classes spanning, cardiovascular, neuroscience, fibrosis, metabolic and immunology drug discovery.
Track record of successfully building and leading high achieving discovery teams that advanced 38 clinical candidates, including two marketed drugs for the treatment of cardiovascular disease; losartan, to treat hypertension, and Eliquis® (apixaban), a novel oral anticoagulant.