About the Authors
Elvin D. de Araujo – University of Toronto Mississauga
Elvin D. de Araujo obtained his PhD from the University of Toronto and completed a postdoctoral fellowship focussed on exploring and targeting oncogenic proteins in the context of structural biology and medicinal chemistry. He currently oversees the Centre for Medicinal Chemistry staff and trainees and facilities their entrepreneurial growth in building spin-off companies to their value inflection point. He has co-authored >45 publications in the fields of medicinal chemistry and biochemistry and has received over 20 academic awards/honors.
Timothy B. Wright – University of Toronto Mississauga
Timothy B. Wright obtained a B.Sc. (Honors Specialization in Chemistry) from The University of Western Ontario in 2014. His graduate studies under the supervision of Professor P. Andrew Evans focused on C–C bond formation and asymmetric catalysis. His research was recognized with an NSERC PGS D Fellowship, and in 2019, he received his Ph.D. from Queen’s University. In 2020, he joined the laboratory of Professor Seth B. Herzon as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, where worked on total synthesis and biological evaluation of antiproliferative marine metabolites. Timothy is now a Research Associate at the University of Toronto (Mississauga), where his research interests with Professor Patrick T. Gunning (CMC) include the development of covalent therapeutics, chemoproteomics, and bifunctional ligands.
Bilal Saqib – University of Toronto Mississauga
Bilal is a PhD student at the University of Toronto investigating the undruggable proteome for the development of novel cancer therapeutics under the supervision of Dr. Patrick Gunning. With a keen interest in science communication, Bilal employs photography as a medium for scientific dissemination. With this particular resource, he aims to introduce medicinal chemistry and drug discovery to a wider audience.
Jeffrey W. Keillor – University of Ottawa
Jeffrey W. Keillor began his academic career in 1995 in the Chemistry Department at the Université de Montréal. In 2011 he moved to the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences of the University of Ottawa, where he held a University Research Chair in Bioorganic Chemistry until 2021. His research program is situated at the interface of chemistry and biochemistry, in the fields of chemical biology and medicinal chemistry. In 2017 he won the Bernard Belleau Award for his work in the field of medicinal chemistry, and in 2020 he was named a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada (FCIC).
Patrick T. Gunning – University of Toronto Mississauga
Patrick T. Gunning, PhD is a Full Professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Director and founder of the Centre for Medicinal Chemistry. Dr. Gunning received his BSc (2001) and PhD (2005) from the University of Glasgow before pursuing postdoctoral studies with Professor Andrew D. Hamilton (Yale University). His research group has focussed on the development of small molecule covalent technologies and he has spun out multiple biotech companies including Janpix Ltd., Dalriada Drug Discovery, and Dunad Therapeutics. He has received multiple awards and has been named in Canada’s Top 40 under 40 awardees.
