Autor: Tudor I. Oprea

Tudor I. Oprea is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Chief, Division of Biocomputing at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque (USA). He was born in Timisoara (Romania) where he did all his studies including his Ph.D. thesis under the supervision of Francisc Schneider. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Washington University with Garland Marshall, and Los Alamos National Laboratory with Angel Garcia. He worked six years at Astra Zeneca in Mölndal (Sweden), before moving to New Mexico as full Professor in 2002. He received the Hansch Award from the QSAR and Modeling Society in 2002. He is interested in chemoinformatics, virtual screening, QSAR, and lead and drug discovery.