Begin forwarded message: From: "Jansen, Johanna" <johanna.jansen@novartis.com<mailto:johanna.jansen@novartis.com>> Subject: postdoc opening Date: January 8, 2015 4:55:49 PM PST To: "'Matt.Jacobson@ucsf.edu<mailto:Matt.Jacobson@ucsf.edu>'" <Matt.Jacobson@ucsf.edu<mailto:Matt.Jacobson@ucsf.edu>>, "shoichet@cgl.ucsf.edu<mailto:shoichet@cgl.ucsf.edu>" <shoichet@cgl.ucsf.edu<mailto:shoichet@cgl.ucsf.edu>> Dear Matt & Brian, It was good seeing you at the event today. Below is the summary of the postdoc position that is opening in our group. I will be the mentor and Heinz Moser will be co-mentor. I would appreciate it if you could advertise this at UCSF and I’ll be happy to speak with any interested graduate students to provide further information. Thanks ! Hanneke New in silico descriptors for correlations with biological endpoints and drug design principles: The Computer-Aided Drug Discovery (CADD) group has a strong focus on utilizing the vast Novartis knowledgebase to extract relationships between properties of molecules and their biological activity, and on developing approaches to make predictions based on those relationships using properties calculated from chemical structure (in silico descriptors). We work closely with experimentalists to design the compound sets for measurements of biological and physical properties in an effort to drive drug discovery and determine which molecular properties we can calculate that are predictive of the experimental properties. Two molecular properties that are not well described by the in silico descriptors commonly used in drug discovery are conformational flexibility and hydrogen-bonding strength. These properties play an important role in many biological activities, including various aspects of permeability (entry into mammalian cells, entry into gram-negative pathogens, blood-brain-barrier penetration, and passage across epithelial barriers). In order to better guide chemistry designs in drug discovery, we need better in silico descriptors to capture flexibility and hydrogen bonding strength. Our platform brings together computational, medicinal, and analytical chemistry, with the scientists that measure the relevant physicochemical and biological properties. This environment of experts, software, instruments, and data is particularly suited to develop new approaches for predicting these properties, including creating experimental datasets, and developing and evaluating new in silico descriptors. Applications of such descriptors include selection efforts (archive enhancement, library design, screening set design) as well as prospective chemistry designs during optimization. Qualifications: PhD degree holders, and PhD students within one year of completing of their degrees are eligible to apply. For more information, contact Hanneke Jansen at Johanna.Jansen@novartis.com<mailto:Johanna.Jansen@novartis.com>. To download the cover letter template and apply, please visit http://postdoc.nibr.com/ Matthew P. Jacobson Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases Director, Graduate Group in Biophysics UCSF MC 2540 1700 4th St., Byers Hall, Room 408E San Francisco, CA 94158-2330 matt.jacobson@ucsf.edu<mailto:matt.jacobson@ucsf.edu> jacobsonlab.org<http://jacobsonlab.org>