Expert Witness Profile · Expert R340A
This expert is an endowed-chair professor of medicinal chemistry at a public research university and directs its pharmaceutical life sciences institute, following a more than 20 year industrial career leading discovery chemistry teams at several global pharmaceutical companies.
Expertise spans small-molecule drug design, structure-activity relationship (SAR) optimization, phosphodiesterase and kinase inhibitor chemistry, CNS and cardiovascular/metabolic therapeutics, antiparasitic drug discovery, and stereocontrolled and heterocyclic organic synthesis. This expert is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Chemical Society.
Attorneys retain this expert for pharmaceutical patent litigation, including composition of matter and obviousness disputes, ANDA and Hatch-Waxman matters, and trade secret cases involving discovery chemistry.
Credentials
Formal Education
- Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry from The Ohio State University
- Postdoctoral fellowship in Chemistry from The Pennsylvania State University
- B.S. in Pharmacy, magna cum laude, from the University of Pittsburgh
Why Attorneys Retain This Expert
Expert Qualifications
- Endowed-chair professor of medicinal chemistry directing a pharmaceutical life sciences institute
- More than 20 years leading industrial drug-discovery chemistry teams
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Chemical Society
- Extensive publication and patent record in small-molecule discovery