Alexander Tropsha, Ph.D.

K.H. Lee Distinguished Professor at University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy, UNC

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Alexander Tropsha, PhD. is K.H. Lee Distinguished Professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, UNC-Chapel Hill. Prof. Tropsha obtained his PhD in Chemical Enzymology in 1986 from Moscow State University, Russia. His research interests are in the areas of Computer-Assisted Drug Design, Cheminformatics, Computational Toxicology, Materials Informatics, Structural Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Knowledge Graph Mining. He has authored or co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed research papers, reviews, and book chapters. His research has been supported by multiple grants from the NIH, NSF, EPA, DOD, research foundations, and private companies. He is an elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and a consultant to several technology and drug discovery companies. He is a co-founder of Predictive, LLC, a UNC startup specializing in building models and tools for chemical toxicity prediction.