Joerg Kurt Wegner

Current

Scientist at Tibotec
Blogger at Mining Drug Space
Project administrator at Open source development

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Past

PostDoc at Tibotec (Johnson & Johnson) (http://www.tibotec.com)
PhD student at Center for Bioinformatics Tübingen
PhD student at SOL project (Search and Optimization of Lead structures)

Master Thesis at Group of Prof. Gasteiger (http://www2.chemie.uni-erlangen.de/)

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Education

Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

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Connections

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Industry

Pharmaceuticals

Websites

Joerg Kurt Wegner’s Summary

Drug targets - Proteases, Polymerases

Methods - Collaboration, Decision and Project Support, Modelling, Information and Knowledge, Homology Modelling, Electrostatics, Mutant Modelling, Structure-Activity Relationship Modelling, In-Silico Screening, Hit2Lead, Late Lead Optimization

Goals - Collaboration, support, communication, social media, innovation

Joerg Kurt Wegner’s Specialties:

pro-activity, networking, science, literature management, computer science expertise

Joerg Kurt Wegner’s Experience

Scientist

Tibotec

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)

September 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

Antiviral drug research and development, structure-based drug design, drug resistance modeling, cheminformatics, statistical modeling
Blogger

Mining Drug Space

(Pharmaceuticals industry)

2005 — Present (4 years )

Innovation, group dynamics, life science, drug development, decision making, cheminformatics, bioinformatics, molecular modelling, structure-based drug design, software engineering, new molecular entities, social software
Project administrator

Open source development

(Non-Profit; Myself Only; Research industry)

2001 — Present (8 years )

Cheminformatics, algorithm development, data mining, graph mining
PostDoc

Tibotec (Johnson & Johnson) (http://www.tibotec.com)

(Pharmaceuticals industry)

October 2005 — September 2007 (2 years )

Drug resistance modeling, molecular modeling, cheminformatics, structure-based drug design
PhD student

Center for Bioinformatics Tübingen

(Educational Institution; Research industry)

December 2002 — May 2005 (2 years 6 months)

Teaching structure-based drug design, cheminformatics, molecular modeling, statistical modeling (machine learning, data mining, graph mining), global optimization (evolutionary algorithms, memetic algorithms), algorithm development, combinatorial optimization (graph algorithms)
PhD student

SOL project (Search and Optimization of Lead structures)

(Educational Institution; Research industry)

January 2001 — December 2002 (2 years )

Project partners

* Computer-Chemie-Centrum, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Prof. Gasteiger)
* Institute of pharmaceutical chemistry, University of Marburg (Prof. Klebe)
* Merck, Darmstadt
* Solvay, Hannover
* Byk Gulden, Konstanz

The SOL-project is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) , contact number 311681.
Master Thesis

Group of Prof. Gasteiger (http://www2.chemie.uni-erlangen.de/)

(Pharmaceuticals industry)

2000 — 2001 (1 year )

Joerg Kurt Wegner’s Education

Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen

2001 — 2006
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Master , Chemistry , 2000 — 2001

Activities and Societies:

Group of Prof. Gasteiger, infrared spectra, cheminformatics, fast-fourier transformation, noise reduction, structural analysis, JCAMP

Additional Information

Joerg Kurt Wegner’s Websites:

Joerg Kurt Wegner’s Interests:

structure-based drug design, drug resistance modeling, cheminformatics, molecular modeling, computer science, content management, decision making, networking