Chris Swain
Director Founder at Cambridge MedChem Consulting
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Swain is a medicinal chemistry and drug discovery leader with over three decades of experience transitioning from a senior director role at Merck to founding Cambridge MedChem Consulting in 2006. He combines hands-on expertise in high-throughput screening analysis, hit-to-lead programmes, lead optimisation and computational chemistry (virtual screening, QSAR) with independent licensing oversight for academia and industry collaborations. At Merck he led the NK1 antagonist programme that produced multiple preclinical candidates and contributed to a marketed drug (Emend), and he has since supported Wellcome-funded projects and sits on advisory boards including Parkinson's UK DDAP and Sitryx. He’s active in the scientific community—chairing RSC committees, organising major meetings and delivering training courses—while also building practical informatics tools earlier in his career (web-based project portals and HTS analysis software). Known for bridging chemistry, computation and project leadership, he brings rare experience in both initiating fruitful discovery programmes and implementing the informatics infrastructure that accelerates them. Based in Greater Cambridge, he continues to advise pharma and academic groups on lead finding strategy and optimisation.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of CambridgeUniversity of Southampton
Github Skills (31)
toolbox10
chemistry10
cheminformatics10
graphic9
materials-informatics9
bioinformatics9
computational-biology9
compounds8
computational-chemistry8
conda8
predict8
web-application8
package-management8
monte-carlo-tree-search7
bioconda7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
opensourceantibiotics/murligase
Feb 2019 - Oct 2021
Everything to do with the Mur Ligase Project
Contributions:219 commits, 209 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
opensourceantibiotics/GeneralTopics
Feb 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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