Computer-Assisted Drug Design

Gisbert Schneider (*1965) studied biochemistry and computer science at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, where he received his doctoral degree in 1994. After several post-doctoral research activities he joined F.Hoffmann-La Roche Pharmaceuticals in Basel, Switzerland, where he headed the cheminformatics group. He received his habilitation and venia legendi from the University of Freiburg, Germany. From 2002-2009 he was full professor of chem- and bioinformatics (Beilstein Endowed Chair) at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. In 2010 he joined ETH Zürich as a full professor of computer-assisted drug design.

His research activities concentrate on method development for virtual screening, molecular de novo design, and adaptive systems in drug discovery. He also coined the terms “scaffold-hopping” and “frequent hitter”.