Peter Kolb

Current

• Sponsorship Officer at UCSF Postdoctoral Scholars Association
• Postdoctoral Fellow at UCSF

Past

• Consultant at Oncalis AG
• Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Zurich
• Guest researcher at Karolinska Institutet

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Education

• Universität Zürich
• Universität Wien
• Universität für Bodenkultur Wien

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Websites

• My Website
• Epernicus Page
• XING Page

Peter Kolb’s Summary

Experienced postdoctoral level research scholar with expertise in fragment-based virtual high-throughput screening and in silico drug design on multiple targets. Author of the computer program DAIM, which is used in fragment-based drug design.

Peter Kolb’s Specialties:

LIE models, programming, computer-aided drug design, chemoinformatics, fragments, fragment generation, DAIM

Peter Kolb’s Experience

• Sponsorship Officer

  UCSF Postdoctoral Scholars Association

  (Higher Education industry)

  August 2009 — Present (4 months)

  I am acquiring and managing sponsors for the events of the Postdoctoral Scholars Associaton at UCSF.

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  UCSF

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

  Research in the lab of Brian K. Shoichet on GPCR inhibitors and in silico enzyme function prediction.

• Consultant

  Oncalis AG

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  July 2007 — August 2007 (2 months)

  Consulting and hands-on training to establish computer-aided drug design methods at the company.

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  University of Zurich

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  January 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 6 months)

  Continuation of the PhD thesis work in the lab of Amedeo Caflisch. Work on LIE models, kinases and fragment-based drug design.

• Guest researcher

  Karolinska Institutet

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  October 1998 — February 1999 (5 months)

  Term abroad working on HIV (lab of Francesca Chiodi) and pathogenic E.coli (lab of Mikael Rhen).

Peter Kolb’s Education

• Universität Zürich

  Ph.D. , Biochemistry , 2001 — 2005

  PhD thesis with Amedeo Caflisch in computational structural biology, computer-aided drug design and chemoinformatics. Coding of DAIM, a program for fragment-based docking.

  Activities and Societies:

  PhD Student & PostDoc Committee

• Universität Wien

  M.Sc. , Biochemistry, Chemistry, Theoretical Chemistry , 1994 — 2001

  Activities and Societies:

  Fakultaetsvertretung NaWi, OeH

• Universität für Bodenkultur Wien

  S-layer proteins, nanolayers 1999 — 2000

  M.Sc. thesis at the Center for Ultrastructure Research, supervised by Margit Sara and Uwe B. Sleytr.

Additional Information

Peter Kolb’s Websites:

• My Website
• Epernicus Page
• XING Page

Peter Kolb’s Interests:

Drug design, chemoinformatics, computational chemistry, binding energy estimation, function prediction, DAIM, fragments, fragment-based methods.

Peter Kolb’s Groups:

AAAS, ACS

•    Computational Biology
•    Biotech & Pharma Professionals Network
•    Life Science Professionals
•    Computational Chemists
•    University of Zurich Alumni
•    Medical Device Professionals Network
•    Fragment-based Drug Discovery
•    Cheminformatics
•    Drug Design
•    GPCR and ion channel drug discovery
•    ZINC Database Fans
•    Alumni UZH University of Zurich
•    Life Sciences Opportunities in EU
•    Job opportunities in Computational Chemistry and Biology, Xray Crystallography, Fragment Based DD

Peter Kolb’s Honors:

SNF Fellowship for Prospective Researchers, 2007
Coalesix Academic Excellence Award, 2005
Performance scholarship awarded by the Faculty for Sciences and Mathematics, 1998
Performance scholarship awarded by the Senate of the University of Vienna, 1996

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