Christophe Morice

Biography

Christophe Morice, is Head of the Medicinal Chemistry Department at Prestwick Chemical since 2010. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry at the University of Rennes in 1998. He joined in 1999 the group of Pr Wermuth at the faculty of Pharmacy of Strasbourg for a Post-Doctoral fellowship in Medicinal Chemistry for Eli Lilly & Co laboratories (Indianapolis, IN). During this 2 years period, he developed SAR on selective 5HT agonists. Prior to joining Prestwick Chemical in 2003 he worked for one year (2002) at the R&D department of Cilag AG (Johnson&Johnson Group, Shaffhausen, CH) for which he set up optimization processes for the synthesis of a NCE. He has developed at Prestwick Chemical, as Research Chemist then Team Leader (2007), lead optimization programs in various therapeutic areas that led to the deposit of 9 patents. One of this optimized lead has been recently successfully licensed to the pharmaceutical industry

Research Interest

Medical Chemistry, Biochemistry