First BAGIM event of the season: Roy Vaz

Title: A data analysis exercise to decipher kinase antitargets

Roy J. Vaz received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida, Gainesville in Chemistry with Profs. G. B. Butler and M. Zerner. He obtained an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. After his Ph.D., he obtained an MBA from the University of Illinois, UC and most recently an MS in Molecular Biology from Lehigh University. He was responsible for managing the CADD, SB and Cheminformatics efforts at Sanofi, Bridgewater, NJ prior to relocating and supporting small molecule discovery at Sanofi-Genzyme, Waltham, MA. He was previously Director of the Investigative Product Optimization department at Aventis in Bridgewater. He has worked with Bristol-Myers Squibb, Hopewell as Principal Scientist as well as Tripos, Inc, St. Louis as a Research Scientist. He has authored or co-authored over 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals, contributed towards many book chapter and several patents and edited 2 books related to Antitargets.