Dear Brian,

I hope you are well! I wanted to bring to your attention that Astex is starting a Postdoctoral Training Program this year. This will involve a number of postdocs each year, working in and across a range of disciplines, doing cutting edge science. These are fully industrial postdocs, based at the Astex site in Cambridge, UK, with supervision provided by Astex scientists. Assuming we can get a candidate of high enough calibre, one of these postdocs will be working with me in the Astex Computational Chemistry group. We have posted an advert on the CCL web site describing the Postdoctoral Training Program, and a little bit about a possible project in computational structure-based design:

http://www.ccl.net/cca/jobs/joblist/mess0028548.shtml

We are looking for outstanding young scientists with a background in computational chemistry, preferably with an expertise in structure-based methods. Given your outstanding work in Computational Chemistry I wondered if you were aware of a potential candidate in your group or department who might be suitable, and to whom you could  pass on this message?

Best wishes,

Marcel

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Marcel Verdonk, PhD

Director, Computational Chemistry & Informatics
Astex Pharmaceuticals
436 Cambridge Science Park
Milton Road, Cambridge
CB4 0QA, UK

Tel: +44(0)1223 226206
Fax: +44(0)1223 226201

marcel.verdonk@astx.com
www.astx.com 
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