Virtual Screening – Principles, Challenges and Practical Guidelines

Christoph Sotriffer is Professor for Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University ofWurzburg, Germany. He graduated as a chemist from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where he obtained his PhD in 1999. After conducting postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Diego, USA, and the University of Marburg, Germany, he moved to the University ofWurzburg in 2006, where he has built a research group for computational medicinal chemistry. Besides structure-based drug design and virtual screening, his prime scientific interest is the computational analysis and prediction of protein-ligand interactions. His work was awarded by the Austrian Chemical Society GOECH in 2005 and the German Chemical and Pharmaceutical Societies GDCh and DPhG in 2007.