Science & Engineering Hall
Conference Room 8040
Guest Speaker
Min Shen, PhD
Cheminformatics Group Leader
Division of Preclinical Innovation
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NCATS, NIH
Min Shen, PhD, is the Cheminformatics Group Leader for the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) Division of Preclinical Innovation (DPI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). At NIH, she plays a pivotal role in the drug discovery process and works in the therapeutic areas of oncology, virology, parasitic diseases, and inflammatory and metabolic diseases.
Dr. Shen has extensive experience in cheminformatics and computational chemistry and expertise in database mining, high-throughput virtual screening, lead identification, and optimization using both small molecule- and protein structure-based computational approaches. Prior to joining NIH, Dr. Shen researched computer-assisted drug design technologies at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, where she earned her PhD in computational chemistry. She received her MS in computational chemistry from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and her BS in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Peking University, both in Peking, China.