Chemical Sciences in Early Drug Discovery

Pierfausto Seneci has 20 years of medchem experience in both big pharma and start-up private companies, in addition to over a decade of academic experience from the University of Milan, at whose Interdisciplinary Center for Biomolecular Studies and Industrial Applications (CISI) he is currently based. His interests include drug discovery – AB, CNS, oncology -, medchem, high-throughput synthesis, business development in drug discovery, and he has published 80 papers, 1 book on Combichem and 50 international presentations.

1. Step 1: Target Identification 2. Step II: Target Validation 3. Step IIIa: Biological Hit Discovery Through High-Throughput Screening (HTS): Random Approaches and Rational Design 4. Step IIIb: The Drug-Like Chemical Diversity Pool: Diverse and Targeted Compound Collections