I am a principal scientist at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, where I work on computational drug design.
At Vertex, I use a combination of physics-based simulations, cheminformatics, machine learning, and quantum mechanics to help design human therapeutics. I also spend time developing new methods and writing code. I have authored sections of Investigational New Drug (IND) and New Drug Application (NDA) documents.
I was a postdoctoral fellow with Mike Gilson, at UCSD, and the Open Force Field Initiative, where I worked on nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of protein dynamics, computational methods for assessing small molecule binding free energies, and force field development. Before that, I earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Biophysics at Penn, where I was advised by Paul Janmey and Ravi Radhakrishnan. I completed an undergraduate degree in Physics at Kenyon College.
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