Alex Satz
Executive Director at WuXi AppTec HitS
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
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Top SchoolAlex Satz is an Executive Director based in Basel with over a decade of hands-on and leadership experience in synthetic, medicinal, and combinatorial chemistry focused on small-molecule drug design and lead optimization. He leads global HitS chemistry operations across Europe, the USA, and China, and has driven industry-leading DNA-encoded library (DEL) platforms and strategy at WuXi AppTec and Roche. His career combines deep bench chemistry—publishing foundational DEL methods and biological follow-up work—with program-level management of screening, fragment-based discovery, structural biology, and CADD. Notably, he has steered DEL-derived discovery into in vivo pharmacology, including work on DDR1 inhibitors with translational impact. Colleagues value him for bridging chemistry innovation with scalable service platforms that accelerate early-stage drug discovery. Educated at UC Santa Barbara (PhD) and Harvard Medical School (fellowship), he brings an uncommon mix of academic rigor and operational execution.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Chemistry, BS, Chemistry at The University of New MexicoFellowship, Schepens Institute, Fellowship, Schepens Institute at Harvard Medical SchoolPhD, Organic Chemistry, PhD, Organic Chemistry at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (5)
keras10
expressions10
python9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
alschf/facial_expressions
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:7 PRs, 13 pushes, 5 branches in 19 days
pythonfacial-expressionsdeep-learningfacialexpressions
alschf/Satz_IS620_HW1
Sep 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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