Associate Professor
Howard University
Dr. Simon Wang is currently a tenured professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Howard University College of Pharmacy. He also directs the Artificial Intelligence and Drug Discovery Core Laboratory for District of Columbia Center for AIDS Research https://dccfar.gwu.edu/artificial-intelligence-and-drug-discovery. His expertise includes computer-aided drug design, AI/ML, high-throughput screening, computational chemistry, and biomolecular simulation. Dr. Wang has published about 90 peer-reviewed research articles, reviews, book chapters, patents and datasets as well as more than 220 invited lectures and conference presentations, also been awarded numerous university-, state-, federal-, industry- and internationally-funded grants. He has been a long-time reviewer for over 50 major research journals including Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, also served in review panels for domestic and international funding agencies such as National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, and Swiss National Science Foundation etc. In recent years, Dr. Wang has pioneered the application of AI/ML methodologies to expedite early drug development, boasting successes with multiple targets. He has also championed the use of AI/ML to finetuning reaction conditions for visible-light photocatalysis in heterocycle synthesis; to enhancing packaging capacity and refining tissue tropism in gene delivery.
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Thursday, May 16, 2024
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM PT