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
Global Therapeutic Research Lead, 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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