Jason Cross

Institute Director, Structural and Computational Drug Design, MD Anderson Cancer Center

An expert computational chemist with industrial drug discovery experience covering multiple therapeutic areas (antibacterials, oncology, neuroscience, women’s health). An innovator in compound design and co-inventor on 20 issued US patents covering three small molecules that have advanced to the clinic. Experienced team and group leader, capable of advancing discovery projects and mentoring senior scientists. Areas of expertise include structure and ligand based design, structural biology & bioinformatics, fragment based ligand design, virtual screening, GPCR and ion channel modeling, quantum chemistry.