Peter Nestler
Co-Founder & Member @ Arizona Tech Investors
About
Strategic life sciences leader and accomplished scientist with over 25 years of experience driving innovation across academia, global pharmaceutical companies, and biotech startups. Renowned for building and leading international consortia that unite academic institutions, biotech ventures, and industry partners to accelerate drug discovery and translational research. As a founder, executive, and commercialization mentor, has successfully guided early-stage ventures, secured multimillion-dollar funding, and facilitated technology transfer and IP licensing. Deep expertise in chemical biology, medicinal chemistry, and single-cell transcriptomics, complemented by a strong record of publications, patents, and advisory roles. Passionate about fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration and mentoring the next generation of scientific entrepreneurs.
United States
Tucson
Biotechnology
Literature, Drug Metabolism, In Vitro, Project Management, Data Management, Cheminformatics, Drug Discovery, Medicinal Chemistry, Chemistry, Data Science, Pharmaceutical Industry, Life Sciences, Drug Development, R&D, Biotechnology, Oncology, Organic Chemistry, Pharmacology, Assay Development, Clinical Development
Experience

Executive Vice President of Research
San Diego, California, United States
We are a life-sciences product company specializing in building tools and generating insights at the interface of biology, chemistry and engineering. We work extensively in cellular analysis and in understanding how genetic code becomes functional output.
Education

Chemistry
Advisor: Prof. W. Clark Still Developed chemical tagging scheme for encoded combinatorial libraries via carbene insertion into the polystyrene matrix of solid-phase synthesis beads which was commercialized by Pharmacopeia, Inc. (J. Org. Chem. 2004, 59.4723) Development and investigation of steroid-supported combinatorial receptor libraries for the selective recognition of peptides as exemplified on the interactions with enkephalins. (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 116, 7955)

Chemistry
Advisor: Prof. Gerhard Quinkert Diploma Thesis on the investigation of photochemically induced macrocyclizations from cyclohexadienones to macrolactones (1989-1990) Doctoral Thesis on the photochemically induced photochemically induced reactions of cyclohexadienones to beta-lactams and macrolactames (1990-1992)
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