Richard Houghten
CEO, President and Founder at Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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Torrey Pines
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United States
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Biotechnology Research
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1 - 100 Employee
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CEO, President and Founder
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Jun 1988 - Present
Founder and CEO; my focus and main activities center around the drug discovery approach termed combinatorial chemistry. This is an approach that permits 10s of millions of compounds to be screened (tested on biological targets) to identify highly active and specific individual compounds. For example, our current approach uses 30,000,000 classic small molecule compounds to be used while requiring the screening of only 100-500 samples. Ultimately this approach is an information gathering method that permits those active functional groups around a given type of molecule (for example a diazepam, a steroid, an amphetamine, et cetera) that yields the most active individual compound. Widely used across academia, bio-technology and pharmaceutical companies. Torrey Pines Institute. A bi-coastal organization founded in 1988 in La Jolla California. Our focus has been in the arras of pain management, diabetes, MS, and the chemical synthesis of extremely large compounds libraries that are now used across the world for drug discovery hits. Show less
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Education
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University of California, Berkeley
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Heterocyclic organic synthesis of natural and purely synthetic interest. -
Calofornia State University at Fresno, Calofirnia (1968--BS)