Jose Duca's Biography

Jose Duca, Head, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research Inc

José is Head of Computer Aided Drug Discovery (CADD) in Cambridge,
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR).
José joined Novartis in 2010. Previously he had been with the Schering-
Plough Research Institute and Merck Research Laboratories in
Kenilworth, NJ, USA for 10 years where he had increasing responsibilities
in the CADD group. His scientific fields of expertise within computational
chemistry include – but are not limited to – molecular modeling, ab
initio calculations, molecular recognition, QM-MM methods and structurebased
drug design.
He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the National University of
Córdoba, Argentina. He joined Prof. Tony Hopfinger’s group in the
College of Pharmacy at the University of Illinois at Chicago as a
Postdoctoral Fellow.