Dr. Manabu Wadamoto, PhD

Chief Scientist at Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Speaker

Dr. Manabu Wadamoto is a Chief Scientist in the Medicinal Chemistry Research Department at Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. After completing his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago (2006) under the supervision of Prof. Hisashi Yamamoto and postdoctoral work at Northwestern University with Prof. Karl A. Scheidt, he joined Mitsui Chemicals Asia Pacific in Singapore (2007). Since 2010, he has been with Chugai Pharmaceutical, where he leads discovery process chemistry efforts on small and medium-sized molecule projects.