Joerg Kurt Wegner
Associate Scientific Director (Team Leader - AI Design Team) at Janssen Research & Development, LLC- Claim this Profile
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Georg Hinselmann
It was a pleasure working together with Joerg. He was one of the most dedicated research assistants through his work at the Department of Computer Architecture at the University of Tuebingen. He was always motivated, a highly skilled programmer, and an excellent scientist. Last but not least: Thanks to his encouraging and exciting seminar "Algorithms in Drug Design" he held in during my 5th semester I am currently writing my doctoral thesis with a related topic.
Nikolas Fechner
Joerg was my tutor/supervisor during the most time of my studies. I worked as a student research assistant for about three years for him and he also supervised my studies thesis (similar to a Bachelor thesis). He had a major role in my decision to get into the cheminformatic research and introduced me in this area. He is a extremely capable programmer and the software he wrote during his PhD project is still a central part of our current projects at his old department.
Georg Hinselmann
It was a pleasure working together with Joerg. He was one of the most dedicated research assistants through his work at the Department of Computer Architecture at the University of Tuebingen. He was always motivated, a highly skilled programmer, and an excellent scientist. Last but not least: Thanks to his encouraging and exciting seminar "Algorithms in Drug Design" he held in during my 5th semester I am currently writing my doctoral thesis with a related topic.
Nikolas Fechner
Joerg was my tutor/supervisor during the most time of my studies. I worked as a student research assistant for about three years for him and he also supervised my studies thesis (similar to a Bachelor thesis). He had a major role in my decision to get into the cheminformatic research and introduced me in this area. He is a extremely capable programmer and the software he wrote during his PhD project is still a central part of our current projects at his old department.
Georg Hinselmann
It was a pleasure working together with Joerg. He was one of the most dedicated research assistants through his work at the Department of Computer Architecture at the University of Tuebingen. He was always motivated, a highly skilled programmer, and an excellent scientist. Last but not least: Thanks to his encouraging and exciting seminar "Algorithms in Drug Design" he held in during my 5th semester I am currently writing my doctoral thesis with a related topic.
Nikolas Fechner
Joerg was my tutor/supervisor during the most time of my studies. I worked as a student research assistant for about three years for him and he also supervised my studies thesis (similar to a Bachelor thesis). He had a major role in my decision to get into the cheminformatic research and introduced me in this area. He is a extremely capable programmer and the software he wrote during his PhD project is still a central part of our current projects at his old department.
Georg Hinselmann
It was a pleasure working together with Joerg. He was one of the most dedicated research assistants through his work at the Department of Computer Architecture at the University of Tuebingen. He was always motivated, a highly skilled programmer, and an excellent scientist. Last but not least: Thanks to his encouraging and exciting seminar "Algorithms in Drug Design" he held in during my 5th semester I am currently writing my doctoral thesis with a related topic.
Nikolas Fechner
Joerg was my tutor/supervisor during the most time of my studies. I worked as a student research assistant for about three years for him and he also supervised my studies thesis (similar to a Bachelor thesis). He had a major role in my decision to get into the cheminformatic research and introduced me in this area. He is a extremely capable programmer and the software he wrote during his PhD project is still a central part of our current projects at his old department.
Experience
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Janssen Research & Development, LLC
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United States
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Associate Scientific Director (Team Leader - AI Design Team)
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Sep 2007 - Present
I have more than fifteen years of drug design experience supporting projects across all therapeutic areas from early target identification to late lead optimization, as well as rationalising design implications of clinical data. I have a strong track record in the business integration of data analytics, large-scale multi-task learning AI approaches and cloud environments into a pharmaceutical context and have created, coordinated and delivered various strategic innovation initiatives along such lines with multiple million Euros of budget. This includes, but is not limited to collaborating with many partners, covering academic groups, data analysts, software engineers, medicinal chemists, biologists, and other drug development companies. I have successfully delivered business value to therapeutic area projects using AI and are leading a team of multiple FTE to support our internal drug design project teams as well as driving the strategic AI initiatives. In addition, I am an avid problem solver, am used to working successfully in a fast paced dynamic environment and am a strong believer in diverse teams to reach a business integration and cutting-edge innovation. Additional skills: project coordination, team leader, contract negotiations, structure-based drug design, fragment-based drug design, drug resistance modelling, MBTI:ENTJ Show less
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Open source development
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Thailand
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Project administrator
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2001 - May 2011
Cheminformatics, algorithm development, data mining, graph mining Cheminformatics, algorithm development, data mining, graph mining
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PostDoc
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Oct 2005 - Sep 2007
Drug resistance modeling, molecular modeling, cheminformatics, structure-based drug design Drug resistance modeling, molecular modeling, cheminformatics, structure-based drug design
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Blogger
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2005 - Sep 2007
Innovation, group dynamics, life science, drug development, decision making, cheminformatics, bioinformatics, molecular modelling, structure-based drug design, software engineering, new molecular entities, social software Innovation, group dynamics, life science, drug development, decision making, cheminformatics, bioinformatics, molecular modelling, structure-based drug design, software engineering, new molecular entities, social software
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PhD student
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Dec 2002 - May 2005
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) 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)
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PhD student
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Jan 2001 - Dec 2002
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. 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.
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Master Thesis
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2000 - 2001
Developing an expert system solution for infrared spectra interpretation, which is able assigning functional groups. Developing an expert system solution for infrared spectra interpretation, which is able assigning functional groups.
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Education
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2001 - 2006
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Diplom chemiker, Chemistry -
2000 - 2001
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Master, Chemistry
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