Steven J. Brickner
Director
Infectious Diseases
NAP
India
Biography
STEVEN J. BRICKNER, Ph.D., is Manager of Medicinal Chemistry at Pfizer Central Research, where he leads a team of medicinal chemists that is focused on the discovery and development of new antibacterial agents designed to meet the growing problems with resistance. He has more than 15 years of pharmaceutical industrial research experience, all directed at the discovery of novel antibiotics. Before joining Pfizer, he led a team that discovered and developed linezolid, the first oxazolidinone to undergo phase III clinical evaluation. Dr. Brickner is recognized as a world expert on this new class of antibacterial agents.
Research Interest
STEVEN J. BRICKNER, Ph.D., is Manager of Medicinal Chemistry at Pfizer Central Research, where he leads a team of medicinal chemists that is focused on the discovery and development of new antibacterial agents designed to meet the growing problems with resistance. He has more than 15 years of pharmaceutical industrial research experience, all directed at the discovery of novel antibiotics. Before joining Pfizer, he led a team that discovered and developed linezolid, the first oxazolidinone to undergo phase III clinical evaluation. Dr. Brickner is recognized as a world expert on this new class of antibacterial agents.
