Dr Andrew Pannifer is Lead Scientist in Cheminformatics at Medicines Discovery Catapult.
After a PhD in Molecular Biophysics at Oxford University, mapping the reaction mechanism of protein tyrosine phosphatases, he entered the pharmaceutical industry in 2002. Firstly at AstraZeneca and then at Pfizer, he performed structure-based drug design and crystallography, and in 2010 joined the CRUK Beatson Institute Drug Discovery Programme to start up Structural Biology and Computational Chemistry.
In 2013 he moved to the European Lead Factory as the Head of Medicinal Technologies to start up cheminformatics and modelling and also to work with external IT solutions providers to build the ELF’s Honest Data Broker system for triaging HTS output.
