John Liebeschuetz's Biography

John Liebeschuetz, Head of Research, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre

Research & Applications Manager of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk.

Dr John Liebeschuetz spent his early career as a chemist/molecular modeller firstly in agrochemical research with Dow Chemical, and then later as a modeller in pharmaceutical discovery, initially with Proteus Molecular Design Ltd and subsequently at Tularik Ltd. He was a leading member of a team that generated the first phase II clinical candidate to come from a computational chemistry driven fragment-based approach, an oral antithrombotic factor Xa inhibitor.

He now heads the Research & Applications Group at the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre and his main research interests are molecular docking and the use of experimental structural information to improve the lot of the modeller, medicinal chemist and protein crystallographer.