Amplifying intelligent drug design
This year’s Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the year is Andrew Hopkins of start-up Exscientia and the University of Dundee, UK
Andrew Hopkins’ route into the world of science has a familiar start – an inspirational chemistry teacher at school. Less predictably, he made a career in pharmaceuticals after getting his first taste of industrial chemistry in a steelworks.
Now the chief executive of Exscientia, he got into the emerging field of computational drug design during a career at Pfizer before returning to academia and then spinning out the drug discovery business in 2012