FBLD 2008 Speakers

Philip Hajduk, Ph.D.

Phil did his undergraduate work at the University of Illinois-Urbana, where he received a B.S. in Chemistry in 1989. He completed his graduate work under the supervision of Prof. Laura Lerner at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he received his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1993. He then began work as a post-doctoral fellow at Abbott Laboratories under Dr. Stephen Fesik, and was converted to Staff Scientist in 1996. During his post-doctoral research under Steve, Phil spearheaded the early development and application of SAR by NMR. In his current role as head of the Protein NMR, Molecular Modeling, and Cheminformatic groups at Abbott, Phil continues to apply and expand the utility of structure-based and fragment-based approaches to enable and expedite the drug discovery process. Phil has authored or co-authored more than 65 scientific publications and is a co-inventor on 7 U.S. patents. Phil currently lives with his wife, Kathleen, and two children, Jason and Allison, in Mundelein, IL.