College of Pharmacy Dean's Seminar Series
Viktor Hornak will give a talk titled "Computational Chemistry in Industrial Drug Discovery: From Molecular Design to Better Decisions."
About
Viktor Hornak is a seasoned computational chemist with extensive pharmaceutical industry experience. He began his industrial career at Merck, then spent a decade at Novartis in the Computer Aided Drug Discovery (CADD) group, before returning to Merck. Viktor has expertise in all stages of drug discovery, including target identification, hit finding, and lead optimization. His work on targeted protein degradation has identified several novel oncology targets, and he has contributed to multiple development candidates in heart failure and viral infections. Currently, as Head of Modeling & Informatics, Discovery Chemistry at Merck Research Laboratories, Viktor leads a diverse team of computational chemists and data scientists and shapes the data science strategy for Discovery Chemistry, integrating emerging AI/ML and physics-based methods to advance pipeline projects.
This event is hosted by Dr. Xiaolin Cheng.