Ismael Zamora's Biography

Ismael Zamora, Associate Professor, Lead Molecular Design SL

Ismael Zamora is associate professor at Prompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and CEO at Lead Molecular Design, a company dedicated to research in software for drug metabolism, like MetaSite, MassMetaSite and WebMetabase. He received the PhD in organic Synthesis in 1998 at the Institut Quimic de Sarria in Barcelona and a post-doctoral stage at Professor Cruciani lab in University of Perugia during 1999 where started to model absorption properties of compounds across the gastrointestinal tract and the blood-brain barrier. After that period he joined AstraZeneca in Möndal first as a postdoctoral fellow and later as scientific researcher as modeller in the DMPK department until 2001. He received the 11th Corwin Hansch award in 2010 by the CHemoinformatics and QSAR society for his tireless work together with the ADMET community to integrate modeling & QSAR technologies into drug discovery.