Meet the lab
Members
A multidisciplinary team of computational chemists, physicists, and biologists developing the tools and methods that power modern drug discovery, and applying them to find new treatments for some of the most challenging diseases.
Principal Investigator
Stefano Forli, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology
Scripps Research
Stefano specializes in the design and application of computational tools for drug design, combining medicinal chemistry with structure-based and ligand-based modeling. His work has led to the identification of inhibitors for therapeutically relevant targets including tubulin, cSrc/Abl kinase, COX-1/2, amyloid proteins, HCV, and HIV.
He earned his PhD in Medicinal Chemistry from the Università degli Studi di Siena under the supervision of Prof. Maurizio Botta. In 2008, he joined the Department of Molecular Biology at Scripps Research as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Arthur J. Olson. In 2015, he became an assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology.
Stefano is the leading developer of the AutoDock Suite, the most widely used and cited software for molecular docking. He is also the Director of RSD3, an NIH-funded national resource providing researchers worldwide with access to cutting-edge drug discovery tools. He has trained researchers across the U.S., Europe, and Asia through workshops and courses on computational drug design.
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