Matt Lucas

Biotech R&D leader, Drug Hunter

Role
Global Therapeutic Research Lead, Oncology at Takeda Oncology
Location
Lexington, MA, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Matt Lucas

Leader and Manager with over twenty years experience in medicinal chemistry and drug discovery with a record of success putting compounds into the clinic. Extensive experience in taking compounds from lead identification through to clinical candidate nomination, in therapy areas that include infection, immunology, neuroscience and oncology. In depth knowledge of structure based drug design (SBDD), fragment based drug design (FBDD). Background managing successful collaborations with external CROs on integrated projects.

Experience

  1. Global Therapeutic Research Lead, Oncology

    Takeda Oncology

    May 2025 — Present

Education

  • Florida State University

    Post Doc, Chemistry

    2000 — 2002

  • University of Southampton

    Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry and Biochemistry

    1993 — 1997

  • University of Southampton

    PhD, Organic chemistry

    1998 — 2000

Skills

  • CRO
  • Nmr Spectroscopy
  • Inflammation
  • High Throughput Screening
  • Chemistry
  • Parallel Synthesis
  • Oncology
  • Gpcrs
  • Lifesciences
  • Purification
  • Glp
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Synthetic Organic Chemistry
  • Pharmacokinetics
  • Computational Chemistry
  • Chromatography
  • Dmpk
  • Virology
  • Adme
  • Molecular Modeling
  • Small Molecules
  • In Vitro
  • Drug Metabolism
  • Nmr
  • Medicinal Chemistry
  • Heterocyclic Chemistry
  • Drug Design
  • Biochemistry
  • Drug Discovery
  • Organic Synthesis
  • Pharmacology
  • Ion Channels
  • Scifinder
  • Life Sciences
  • Drug Development
  • Immunology
  • Assay Development
  • Clinical Development
  • Neuroscience
  • Biomarkers

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