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The 2006 Corwin Hansch Award of the QSAR and Modelling Society has been
presented to
Dr. Jordi Mestres of the
Municipal Institute of Medical
Research and University Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona. This award recognizes the
work of a young investigator in QSAR and modelling with the expectation that
they will continue to advance the field for many years to come. Dr. Mestres
was chosen from a field of very able researchers.
Dr. Mestres was introduced to the concepts of molecular similarity by
Prof.
Ramon Carbó-Dorca and did then a one-year post-doc with Prof.
Gerry Maggiora
at Pharmacia & Upjohn, where he developed MIMIC for the flexible superposition
of molecules.
In 1997 he moved to Organon in the Netherlands, to be later appointed as
Head of Computational Medicinal Chemistry at the research site in Scotland.
In 2003 he moved to Barcelona where he directs a Chemogenomics Laboratory.
His work on 3D similarity, over a decade ago, was revolutionary and
successfully used at Upjohn to develop lead candidates. Once at Organon, he
pioneered the exploitation of ligand-based information in docking methods.
Since then, Dr Mestres has continued to develop new molecular descriptors
and methods for virtual chemical screening and pharmacological profiling. He
is the author of 71 publications, 4 patents among them.
Most important details from Dr. Mestres CV:
| Education |
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| 1985-1990 |
Autonomous University of Barcelona, BSc in
Chemistry |
| 1991-1995 |
University of Girona, PhD in Computational
Chemistry |
| 1996 |
Pharmacia & Upjohn (USA), Postdoctoral
scientist |
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| Positions |
| 1997-2000 |
Research Scientist, N.V.
Organon (The Netherlands) |
| 2000-2003 |
Head of Computational
Medicinal Chemistry, Organon Research (Scotland) |
| 2003- |
Head of the Chemogenomics Laboratory,
Municipal Institute of Medical Research & University Pompeu Fabra |
| 2006- |
Founder & President of Chemotargets SL |
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list of
Dr. Mestres publications on PubMed)
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Last Updated: October 19, 2006
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