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Scientific & Business Evaluator | AI for Pharma Tech Due Diligence & Search & Evaluation

Profile Summary

PhD in Theoretical Chemistry & PharmD with 10+ years in AI-driven drug discovery and business development. Expert in assessing emerging technologies (generative AI, PROTAC, computational chemistry) for VCs, pharma, and biotech. Skilled in competitive benchmarking, IP analysis, and strategic partnerships. BD Director at Iktos (SaaS, AI for drug design) and computational chemist at UCB. Fluent in French & English.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Artificial Intelligence
• ★ Technology Scouting
• ★ Business Strategy
• ☆ Chemoinformatics
• ☆ Theoretical Chemistry
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Bioinformatics
• ☆ Structural Bioinformatics
• ☆ Pharmacy
• ☆ Drug Development
• ☆ Small Molecule Drug Development
• ☆ Preclinical Research
• ☆ Business Operations
• ☆ Data-Driven Decision Making
• ☆ Business Intelligence

Services

• Research
• Consulting

Research Feasibility Study, Technology Scouting

Consulting Business Strategy Consulting, Go-to-Market Strategy Consulting

Work Experience

Director

Iktos

August 2022 - Present

Senior Computational Chemist

UCB Biopharma

September 2021 - August 2022

PhD candidate

Université de Strasbourg

October 2014 - December 2017

Education

PhD (ISIS)

Université de Strasbourg

September 2014 - December 2017

PharmD (Faculté de pharmacie)

Université de Limoges

September 2008 - July 2014

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Nicolas Martin, Mikhail Volkov, Joseph-André Turk, Nicolas Drizard, Brice Hoffmann, Yann Gaston-Mathé, Didier Rognan (2022). On the Frustration to Predict Binding Affinities from Protein–Ligand Structures with Deep Neural Networks . Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.

Nicolas Martin, Adrien Henri Cerdan, Marco Cecchini (2018). An Ion-Permeable State of the Glycine Receptor Captured by Molecular Dynamics . Structure.

Martin, NE and Malik, S and Calimet, N and Changeux, JP and Cecchini, M(2017). Un-gating and allosteric modulation of a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel captured by molecular dynamics. PLoS computational biology. 13. (10). p. e1005784.

Ponomarenko, Jevgenija and Trouillas, Patrick and Martin, Nicolas and Dizhbite, Tatyana and Krasilnikova, Jelena and Telysheva, Galina(2014). Elucidation of antioxidant properties of wood bark derived saturated diarylheptanoids: A comprehensive (DFT-supported) understanding. Phytochemistry. 103. p. 178--187. Elsevier