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Leuven, Flemish Region, Belgium

Leuven

Diepenbeek

As platform project manager, I contributed to Amakem's drug discovery and development projects in terms of computer-aided drug design, medicinal chemistry, biochemistry and intellectual property (inventor, document writing, scientific feedback to office actions). Highlights for this position:* Contributing to discovery, evaluation and development of.

Diepenbeek

I joined Amakem NV a few months after it was founded by mu former Devgen colleagues Dirk Leysen, Olivier Defert and Nadya Kaval.My inital tasks at Amakem were:* To implement a small CADD platform that was essentially based on open source contributions.* To provide CADD support in order: - To better define/understand the principles of localized drug action.

* Key competences: structure-based drug design, virtual screening, molecular docking, molecular dynamics, QSAR/QSPR, classification & regression algorithms, cheminformatics * Responsible for several lead discovery & optimisation projects * Redaction and presentation of proposals & scientific reports * Contact with CROs and compound providers* Interaction.

* Key competences: structure-based and ligand-based drug design, virtual screening, molecular docking, molecular dynamics, QSAR/QSPR, homology modelling* Support of the medicinal chemistry group for lead discovery & optimisation projects* Chem. Rep. of a lead discovery project involving virtual screening and crystallography* Collaboration with FUNDP for.

* Key competences: structure-based drug design, small molecule crystallography, molecular docking, molecular modelling and molecular dynamics* Support of a drug design project sponsored by regional funds (WALEO)* PhD studentship sponsored by two grants from the “Fonds pour la Recherche en Industrie et en Agriculture” (FRIA)* Collaboration with organic.