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Associate Director / Director, Computational Chemistry
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- Light Horse Therapeutics is a small molecule drug discovery company based in San Diego, employing tools from chemical and computational biology, in conjunction with precision genome editing methods to identify functional/ligandable sites on high value oncology protein targets for therapeutic intervention.
- Light Horse Therapeutics was founded by leading academics Brian Liau (Harvard), Ben Cravatt (Scripps) and Nathanael Gray (Stanford) with initial financial backing from Versant Ventures and Mubadala Capital.
- Light Horse Therapeutics is seeking a motivated, creative and experienced computational chemist to spearhead the analysis of the newly discovered functional sites in proteins and contribute to the discovery and development of small molecules targeting various classes of targets.
- Setting computational chemistry strategies to investigate newly discovered functional sites by developing a strong understanding of target biology and applying various tools of protein modeling
- Apply deep understanding of predictive methods (e.g. physical properties, PK, synthetic feasibility) to help with medicinal chemistry efforts and support SAR
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