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Senior staff profile

Cédric Merlot is the CEO of Drugdesigntech which he founded in 2007. After receiving an MSc in Chemistry, he started his career at Sanofi in the molecular modelling group. In 2001 he joined Merck-Serono and had increasing responsibilities in the scientific computing department, with a focus on data management for small molecules and biologicals and […]

About us

Drugdesigntech develops innovative computational solutions to support drug discovery, with a focus on knowledge management and decision support for both biologic therapeutics and traditional small molecule drug discovery. The company was founded in 2007 by Cédric Merlot and is based at the Eclosion incubator centre in Geneva, Switzerland. The technical expertise has been gathered from […]

Research interests

A bridge between bioinformatics and chemoinformatics Combining the worlds of bioinformatics and cheminformatics, we offer computational solutions that allow in-context decision support for the discovery of therapeutics. Our experience in large pharma and biotechs makes that we understand easily the needs and the individual languages used in each area of the discovery process (biology, protein […]