Alexander Polinsky

Biography

 Alexander Polinsky received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Moscow University, Russia, in 1982, followed by post-doctoral training at the Institute for Biochemistry at the Russian Academy of Science. He was on the faculty at Moscow University for 5 years studying the mechanisms of action of synthetic vaccines. After moving to the U.S. in 1988, he spent 2.5 years as a Visiting Scientist at UCSD developing new methods for computer-aided drug design. In 1991, Dr. Polinsky co-founded the Alanex Corporation and built the company from scratch around novel computational and combinatorial chemistry technologies; he served as Alanex’ Chief Scientific Officer until it was acquired by Agouron in 1997.

Research Interest

 Physical Chemistry, BIOCHEMISTRY