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Jun Xu

Jun Xu

Editorial Board Member
Sun Yat-Sen University China Member since 2017

Biography

Jun Xu became Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and CADD, and the Director and Founding Professor of the Research Center for Drug Discovery (RCDD) and the HPC Center for Life Sciences (HPCCLS) at Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU) in Guangzhou, China in 2009. Prior to joining SYSU, he worked in the pharmaceutical industry, practicing chemoinformatics and computer-aided drug design (CADD) for over 20 years. He was director of CADD at DPI/Biofocus, a drug discovery CRO, a principal scientist managing the computational chemistry and chemoinformatics group at BoehringerIngelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (BIPI). Before joining BIPI, he held an R&D director position at BIO-RAD Sadtler Division, and was a senior staff scientist developing drug discovery related technology at both OMG (now merged with Accelrys) and Tripos.His main focus at SYSU has been to apply the principles of chemoinformatics and CADD to the design of drugs and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) remedies. His team has developed TCM databases, HPC algorithms for chemical structure recognitions, classifications, drug-likeness, 3D molecular superimposing, virtual drug screening, new technologies for natural product extractions and syntheses, and synthetic biology.

Research Interests

Chemoinformatics 3D molecular superimposing New technologies for natural product extractions and syntheses

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