Jacques Huck
Medicinal Chemist, Galapagos
I am an organic and medicinal chemist with over 5 years experience within the pharmaceutical industry. I have a solid background in organic chemistry and a good knowledge of screening analysis, hit finding, lead identification and optimization for nuclear receptors, enzymes and GPCRs.
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2006 - 2008Project: Conception and synthesis of GPCR agonists and antagonists. Hit-to-Lead and Lead Optimization phases on GPCRs project in collaboration with computational chemists and biologists.
2002 - 2006Project: PPARb, PPARg, modulators and antagonists, SGLTs inhibitors: conception and synthesis for the treatment of metabolic diseases.
1999 - 2002Thesis title: “Synthesis and Reactivity of b-amino acids and their derivatives”