FBLD 2008 Scientific Advisory Board

Martin J. Drysdale, Ph.D.

Martin Drysdale received his B.Sc. (1986) and Ph.D. (1990) in chemistry from St. Andrews University in Scotland. From the end of 1989 to 1991 he was a Parke-Davis Neuroscience Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Parke-Davis site in Cambridge, UK and then spent 6 years at Wellcome and Glaxo-Wellcome in the UK working on projects in the CNS and inflammatory therapeutic areas. In 1997 he joined RiboTargets back in Cambridge UK, then a Biotech start-up company, to head up and develop the chemistry group there working on anti-infective targets. After surviving several rounds of mergers, acquisitions and company name changes he is now Director of Chemistry & Structural Science at Vernalis working in the oncology and CNS areas, with a particular interest in Structure Based Drug Design and Fragment Based Methods of hit identification.