David Leahy

Professor of Practice & Head of Molecular Informatics Group, Newcastle University

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Current
  • CEO at Inkspot Science
  • Professor of Practice at Newcastle University
Past
  • Independent Research Scientist at
  • Chief Scientific Officer at Cyprotex
  • Head of Physical Sciences at Zeneca Pharmaceuticals
Education
  • University of East Anglia
  • University of Cambridge
Connections
153 connections
Industry
Pharmaceuticals
Websites

David Leahy’s Summary

Active in scientific innovations related to drug discovery for over 20 years, particularly interested in computer based drug design approaches incuding cheminfomatics, PBPK simulation and systems biology modelling.

Spent a number of years very focussed on experimental and software-based approaches to ADMET and pharmacokinetics.

More recently have become interested in developments around the semantic web, e-Science, Service-Oriented Architectures and the application of agent architectures to automate decision making drug design (www.discoverybus.com) Also active in developing new businesses in these areas and new businesses based on software as services concepts.

Main current research area is in automated decision making for drug design (www.discoverybus.com)

David Leahy’s Specialties:

QSAR
Drug discovery
Drug Discovery technology
Simulation approaches to systems biology
Autonomous agents applied to integration of molecular design algorithms
The semantic grid
service oriented architectures


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David Leahy’s Interests:

drug discovery innovation, agent systems, cheminformatics, open source drug discovery, Long Tail


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