Marcel Patek
CSO And Co-founder at Harmonic Discovery
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Summary
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SeniorMarcel Patek is a drug discovery leader and co-founder with 9 years in industry leadership and over 25 years of hands-on experience across small molecule and peptide programs. As CSO of Harmonic Discovery and founder of Bright Rock Path, he blends medicinal chemistry, ADME, computational and analytical expertise to shepherd projects from target ID through pre-clinical candidate selection. He holds a strong record of innovation with 17 issued patents and 33 publications and routinely applies structure-based design, multi-parameter optimization, and solid-phase peptide synthesis to solve hard discovery problems. Marcel also advises organizations on project and alliance management, CRO oversight, and grant strategy, helping translate scientific ideas into fundable, IP-protected programs. Less obvious: he actively leverages open-source tools like Jupyter and Python to make computational chemistry accessible to medicinal chemists. Based in Tucson, AZ, he excels at bridging technical depth with entrepreneurial and client-facing skills across startups, academia, and large pharma.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
aspect-oriented-programming10
python9
ml-project9
metaprogramming9
functional-programming9
minecraft8
docker-image8
java7
machine-learning4
deep-learning3
distributions2
ml2
simulation1
simulations1
spread1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
max7patek/ARMLd
Nov 2017 - May 2019
Cool ML Project
Contributions:35 commits, 1 PR, 28 pushes in 1 year 5 months
deep-learningml-projectmlmachine-learning
max7patek/metaprogramming
May 2018 - Jun 2020
CS 1501 Student-Taught-Class at the University of Virginia
Contributions:126 commits, 93 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
virginiastudent-taughtuniversity-of-virginiametaprogrammingpython
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