1. Valerie B Boissel holds a PhD in synthetic organic chemistry, which she carried out under the supervision of Nigel Simpkins and was focused on the total synthesis of N-methylwelwitindolinone C isothiocyanate. She joined Novartis directly after her PhD and has been working as a Medicinal Chemist at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research in Horsham (UK) since 2009. Her research focuses on respiratory diseases. In 2014, she was awarded the Chartered Chemist and Chartered Scientist accreditations by...
2. Rebecca Butler, Chartered Chemist and Chartered Scientist, has worked at Novartis Horsham Research Centre since 2006 as a Medicinal Chemist in the field of respiratory diseases. She started her higher education at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) studying chemistry with medicinal chemistry. In 2004, she completed a PhD in organic synthesis at the University of Nottingham (UK) working with Nigel Simpkins, and then undertook 2 years of postdoctoral research in the lab of K Barry Sharpless at the...
3. Paul J Oakley has been working as a Medicinal Chemist within the Novartis Horsham Research Centre since 2006. Previously, he worked at the Merck Sharp and Dohme Neuroscience Research Centre in Harlow (UK). He received a BSc in chemistry and an MSc in organic synthesis from the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK).
4. Neil J Press is currently a Director in Global Discovery Chemistry at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Horsham. He has worked within the respiratory diseases area of Novartis for the last 16 years as a project and team leader. He has coauthored 24 papers in the field of medicinal chemistry and is coinventor on 22 published patent applications for potentially therapeutic products. Neil gained his first degree and PhD in chemistry at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (London,...