Charlie C.
Consultant
About
Passionate and curious medicinal chemist with fifteen years of experience in small, medium and large biotech/pharma companies. • Key contributor to two Tubulysin based clinical antibody drug conjugate programs for cancer. • Experience as program chemistry lead in cross-functional team. • Excellent lab skills and ability to make good use of modern equipment in a medicinal chemistry lab. • Comfortable with designing and synthesizing biologically active small molecules ranging from heterocycles to natural products and cyclic dinucleotides. • Expertise in structure-based drug design to address program challenges (potency, selectivity, metabolic stability, hERG, CYP, PK, in-vitro and in-vivo pharmacology, intellectual property (IP)). • Extensive use of x-ray structure, Livedesign, Mastro and Lead discovery for CADD and visualization. • Experience with effective utilization of CRO to support chemistry needs.
United States
Sunnyvale
Biotechnology
Medicinal Chemistry, Antibody Drug Conjugates, Small Molecules Drug Discovery, Pharmaceutical Industry, Biotechnology, Pharmacology, High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Heterocycle synthesis, SAR development, Lead Optimisation, Payload Synthesis, Linker Synthesis, Pharmacokinetics, immunomodulator, Patent Preparation, X-Ray, Peptide synthesizer, Maestro
Experience
Consultant
Consultant for Whitehawk Therapeutics, from 2025 - Current Providing subject matter expertise in the area of Antibody-Drug Conjugate development, manufacture and testing. Helped with two successful IND applications that received FDA clearance
Principal Scientist
Nine Square Therapeutics
Project chemistry lead for small molecule CNS drug, activities: hit generation through virtual screening and HTS, hit expansion, lead generation and optimization, formulation and execution of medicinal chemistry strategy, management of CRO and assembling of information for IP filings.
Senior Research Scientist - Medicinal Chemistry Automation
SRI
Menlo Park, California, United States
• Medicinal Chemistry Designer for Small Molecule Programs Using SynFini Automated Chemistry Platform (Based on AI, Parallel and Flow Chemistry)
Director of Medicinal Chemistry
CS-Bay Therapeutics
Newark, California, United States
• Antibody-Drug-Conjugate R&D for Cancer
Senior Research Investigator I
Bristol Myers Squibb
Redwood City, CA
• Made significant impact on small molecule TLR7 program. • Acted as chemistry lead for initiation of TLR7 Antibody Drug Conjugate (ADC) program.
Scientist II
Medarex (Acquired by BMS in May 2009)
Sunnyvale, CA
• Key contributor to two Tubulysin-based clinical ADC programs.
Scientist I
Medarex
Sunnyvale, CA
• Modified literature routes to facilitate Tubulysin analog synthesis. • Provided CBI analogs with modified hydrazones for extended serum stability.
Scientist
Galileo Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Santa Clara, CA
• Designed and executed synthesis of analogs for inhibitors of 15-lypoxygenase
Education
UC San Diego
Organic Chemistry
Saint Louis University
Organic Chemistry
Dalian University of Technology
Chemical Engineering
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