लेखक: David J. Livingstone

David J Livingstone is now an independent consultant having previously spent 18 years carrying out research in the pharmaceutical industry. Following a Ph D in drug design at the University of Dundee, he joined Wellcome in their department of Biophysics & Biochemistry on a search for compounds that would promote the release of oxygen from haemoglobin, and later he joined the computational chemistry group in physical chemistry. He then moved to Smith Kline Beecham to run a small computational chemistry group and left to work for himself as a consultant and also became a visiting professor at the Centre for Molecular Design at the University of Portsmouth. While working in the pharmaceutical industry he has had a number of academic collaborations and successfully supervised 3 MSc students and 5 Ph D students. He has published 80 peer reviewed papers, 11 book chapters, 1 book and also edited 3 books. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a member of the editorial board of 3 journals. Andy Davis is a senior principal scientist in chemistry with the Respiratory and Inflammation Innovative Medicines division of Astra Zeneca in Sweden. He read chemistry at Imperial College of Science and Technology and gained a Ph D in Physical Organic Chemistry with Professor MI Page at the University of Huddersfield. He joined Fisons PLC Pharmaceuticals Division, which became part of the Swedish pharmaceutical company Astra AB who then merged with Zeneca PLC, to form Astra Zeneca PLC. He has spent the last 23 years in drug discovery, in line management, project and portfolio management and senior science roles.