Bio

Dr. Ekins graduated from the University of Aberdeen; receiving his M.Sc., Ph.D. in Clinical Pharmacology and D.Sc in Science. Sean was a postdoctoral fellow at Lilly Research Laboratories. He has worked previously as a senior scientist at Pfizer and Lilly Research Laboratories, Associate Director of Computational Drug Discovery at Concurrent Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Vice President of Computational Biology at GeneGo, CSO at Collaborative Drug Discovery and CEO and Co-Founder at Phoenix Nest. Sean has co-authored >390 peer reviewed scientific papers, over 40 book chapters and numerous patents as well as edited/ co-edited six books. He has recently published his first book titled Winning Grants. His latest edited book is “An Introduction to Generative Drug Discovery”. He has received extensive support from NIH, DOD and DTRA for machine learning, drug discovery, rare and neglected disease and computational toxicology projects, raising > $27M.