Editors’ Biographies Downloaded by UNIV OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO on December 12, 2016 | http://pubs.acs.org Publication Date (Web): October 5, 2016 | doi: 10.1021/bk-2016-1222.ot001
Rachelle J. Bienstock Rachelle J. Bienstock received her BChE in chemical engineering from The Cooper Union School of Engineering (New York City) and her Ph.D. in chemistry from The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor. Michigan). She was a Welch Research Fellow at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, prior to moving to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, (NIEHS), an NIH laboratory, in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. She currently serves as Chair of the Division of Chemical Information of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Her research interests include cheminformatics, and computational and structure-based drug design methods.
Veerabahu Shanmugasundaram Veerabahu Shanmugasundaram received a B.E. (Electrical & Electronics Engineering), M.Sc. (Chemistry) from the Birla Institute of Technology & Sciences, Pilani, India and a Ph.D. (Medicinal Chemistry) from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He conducted post-doctoral studies at Pharmacia & Upjohn in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He currently leads the Computational Analysis and Design Group at the Center of Chemistry Innovation and Excellence at Pfizer in Groton, Connecticut. His focus is on discovering and developing transformational medicines through the application of computational methods. His research interests span cheminformatics, computational chemistry, structural biology, and biophysics.
Jürgen Bajorath Jürgen Bajorath studied biochemistry at the Free University in West-Berlin, Germany, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1988. He spent 17 years of his scientific career in the U.S., where he held positions in the pharmaceutical industry and academia. In 2004, he moved to the University of Bonn, Germany, where he currently is Professor and Chair of Life Science Informatics. He is also an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Biological Structure at the University of Washington, Seattle. His research interests include chemoinformatics, computational medicinal chemistry, and drug discovery.
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