Ruben Abagyan, PhD

Professor at University of California, San Diego

Speaker

Ruben Abagyan is a Professor at the Skaggs School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, and Molsoft founder. After developing a novel molecular mechanics method for structure-based drug design at the European Institute of Molecular Biology in Heidelberg, Germany, he moved to New York University and Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine as a professor of Biochemistry and Mathematics. In San Diego, he worked as a Director of Computational Chemistry at the Novartis Institute, a Professor at the Scripps Research Institute before joining UCSD. He has published over 340 articles with H-index of 102, and 46,500 citations, and serves as an adviser and reviewer in industry and academia in the US, Europe, and Asia.