Laurent Knerr, Ph.D.

Principal Scientist at AstraZeneca

Speaker

Present affiliation and position:

• Senior Director / Team Leader
• Medicinal Chemistry, Research and Early Development Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden

Past affiliations:

• PhD organic chemistry, Strasbourg University, France, 1998
• Post-doctoral associate solid phase oligosaccharide synthesis, Konstanz University, Germany 1998-1999
• Team Leader, parallel synthesis and automation group, UCB Pharma, Braine l’Alleud, Belgium 2000-2003

Current specific interests:

• Medicinal chemistry beyond small molecules
• Peptides and peptide conjugates as therapeutics
• Targeted drug delivery
• Bioconjugation
• Drugging RNA and RNA/protein interfaces
• Author or co-author of more than 50 peer reviewed research papers, patents, reviews and book chapter