Auteur: Peng Wu

Dr Frederick W Goldberg is a Medicinal Chemist at Astra Zeneca, UK. He received his MSci at Cambridge University, Ph D at Imperial College London and a Postdoc (Fulbright scholarship) at the University of Texas at Austin. He has extensive experience of leading both chemistry and project teams within oncology, including targets that have delivered clinical candidates. He has over 30 published papers and patents, including a number of research papers and perspective articles on kinases. Dr Richard A Ward is a Computational Medicinal Chemist at Astra Zeneca, UK. He received his BSc (Hons) in Chemistry with Bio-organic Chemistry at The University of Birmingham and gained a Ph D in Computational Chemistry also at The University of Birmingham, under the supervision of Dr John Wilkie. He has extensive experience in target selection, lead generation and lead optimisation against kinase and non-kinase targets with a specialisation in covalent drug discovery. Along with publishing a number of papers on kinases, Richard is a co-inventor of the EGFR mutant kinase inhibitor osimertinib.