Eric Bennett

Current

Senior Research Scientist at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals

Past

Assistant Director & Assistant Professor at Center for Drug Design, University of Minnesota
Graduate student at Cornell University

Education

Cornell University
Pennsylvania State University

Connections

82 connections

Industry

Pharmaceuticals

Eric Bennett’s Summary

Eric Bennett’s Specialties:

Computational chemist with experience in structure & ligand based drug design, antibody humanization, systems administration, and protein crystallography. Supervised one postdoc.

Extensive experience with Schrodinger products, Benchware Discovery 360, Modeller, Perl scripting, and Linux/IRIX/MacOS administration. Also have experience with ROCS, OEChem, Surflex, Pipeline Pilot, PostgreSQL, Benchware 3D, CNS, CCP4, O, NAMD, SYBYL, LSF, OpenPBS/Torque, and programming in C and Python.

Eric Bennett’s Experience

Senior Research Scientist

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals

(Public Company; WYE; Pharmaceuticals industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Senior Research Scientist (computational chemistry) supporting oncology, inflammation, and neuroscience projects through structure/ligand based small molecule design and antibody humanization. Primary comp chem group contact for IT-related issues including performance tuning and workflow automation.
Assistant Director & Assistant Professor

Center for Drug Design, University of Minnesota

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

March 2004 — January 2008 (3 years 11 months)

Assistant Director for Comp Chem (Sep. 2005 - Jan 2008)
Postdoc (Mar. 2004 - Sep. 2005)
Responsible for comp chem / molecular modeling aspects of drug discovery projects in collaboration with 4 med chem labs. Co-investigator on 3 grants. Experience with structure-based design and virtual screening on antiviral (HIV), antibacterial (tuberculosis), and oncology projects. Supervised postdoctoral research. Departmental server administrator.
Graduate student

Cornell University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

1997 — 2003 (6 years )

X-ray crystallography and molecular modeling in polyamine and nucleic acid metabolism, including gene therapy protein engineering applications for oncology. Systems administrator for two computing labs, with 10 SGI and 10 DEC workstations.

Eric Bennett’s Education

Cornell University

PhD , 1997 — 2003
Pennsylvania State University

BS , Biochemistry , 1993 — 1997

President's Freshman Award
Evan Pugh Scholar Award