Maricel Torrent

Biography

Torrent has been working in the field of Molecular Modeling/Computational Chemistry for the last 15+ years, in the context of the pharma/biopharma industry (Merck, Abbott, and now AbbVie), with special emphasis on research in drug discovery and the early pipeline across multiple therapeutic areas. Dr. Torrent is sought by her colleagues both in biology and in medicinal chemistry for her expertise in target exploration and druggability assessment as well as her proven record of finding hits, turning hits into tools, advancing tools into leads, and ultimately optimizing the best leads into preclinical candidate molecules using a variety of in silico methods.

Research Interest

 Microbiology