Alexander Tropsha, PhD. is K.H. Lee Distinguished Professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy (ranked #1 in the country by US News & World Report), UNC-Chapel Hill. Prof. Tropsha obtained his PhD in Chemical Enzymology in 1986 from Moscow State University, Russia, and came to UNC-Chapel Hill in 1989 as a postdoctoral fellow. He joined the School of Pharmacy in 1991 as an Assistant Professor and became full professor in 2002. His research interests are in the areas of Computer-Assisted Drug Design, Cheminformatics, Computational Toxicology, Materials Informatics, Structural Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Knowledge Graph Mining. He has authored or co-authored more than 290 peer-reviewed research papers, reviews, and book chapters and co-edited two monographs. He has trained more than 30 graduate students and over 30 postdoctoral fellows. He has served as a member of the Editorial Board and Associate Editor of the ACS Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. His research has been supported by multiple grants from the NIH, NSF, EPA, DOD, research foundations, and private companies. He is an elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and a consultant to several technology and drug discovery companies. He is a co-founder of Predictive, LLC, a UNC startup specializing in building models and tools for chemical toxicity prediction.
