Fabian Sesterhenn
Senior Principal Scientist at Novartis
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
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Top SchoolFabian Sesterhenn is a Senior Principal Scientist at Novartis in Basel with eight years of experience blending computational and experimental approaches to tackle hard-to-drug targets. He leads interdisciplinary M.Sc. and PhD-level teams to develop biochemical, biophysical and phenotypic hit-finding strategies, integrating protein structure–function analysis and chemical biology to open novel discovery paths. Equally comfortable at the bench and with high-throughput data science, he focuses on the interface of experimentation and molecular design to accelerate small-molecule discovery across diverse modalities. His work—spanning academic postdocs at ETH and EPFL to leadership roles at Novartis—has produced high-impact publications (including Science and Nature) and multiple patents. Colleagues value his ability to build ambitious, fast-paced teams that translate cutting-edge methods into tangible therapeutic opportunities.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Molekulare Medizin, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Molekulare Medizin at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau
English, French, German
Github Skills (9)
extraction8
protein-design8
silent8
science7
rosetta7
toolbox6
data-analysis5
python5
data-visualization5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
LPDI-EPFL/Bottom-up-de-novo-design
Jan 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:36 commits, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
sesterhe/useful_scripts
Sep 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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