Mauricio Tavares
Senior Scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMauricio Tavares is a medicinal chemist and Senior Scientist with over a decade of hands-on drug discovery experience, currently leading oncology-focused medicinal chemistry programs at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. He has steered multiple programs from hit identification to lead optimization and a Phase I candidate, blending deep synthetic expertise with structure-, ligand-, and fragment-based design and an eye for pragmatic go/no-go decisions. Mauricio designs diverse modalities—small molecules, PROTACs, macrocyclic chelators for radioligand therapy, and covalent modulators—and creates bespoke chemical probes (PAL, biotinylated, fluorescent) to accelerate target validation. He routinely integrates ADME-Tox, pharmacology, DMPK, and computational tools (docking, MD, QSAR) into SAR-driven campaigns, and has a proven record managing CROs, mentoring scientists, and contributing to IND-enabling studies and patents. Trained with a PhD from USP and enriched by international research stints, he combines academic rigor with translational impact and a knack for designing efficient synthetic routes that move projects faster than expected.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Medicinal Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Medicinal Chemistry at USP - Universidade de São PauloMackenzie Presbyterian University
Github Skills (9)
projeto8
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estados6
smo4
javascript3
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react3
nodejs3
typescript2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mautoz/mautoz
Sep 2021 - Apr 2024
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
mautoz/mautoz.github.io
Sep 2020 - Apr 2023
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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