New Principal Research Officer

Dr Greg Basarab has just joined H3D as a Principal Research Officer (Medicinal Chemistry Programme Lead), with effect from June 2015.  Dr Basarab comes with more than 15 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry, with just over 5 years spent as a Principal Scientist II/Associate Director and the 10 years prior to that as Principal Scientist I at AstraZeneca R&D Boston Infection Innovative Medicines Department in the USA. He brings expertise in early Clinical Development, Project Leadership, Drug Lead Optimisation and Lead Identification. Previously, he was Senior Research Associate at Dupont Central Research & Development and prior to that, conducted research in the Dupont Agricultural Products Department/Biochemicals Department, having gained his Ph.D. Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. He has over 45 publications in peer-reviewed journals and is the inventor or co-inventor of over 30 patent applications of which 19 have been granted.