Parker Christian

Biography

I grew up in Scotland and received my first degree from Edinburgh University. Then I moved to the University of Bristol, England, to gain a Ph.D. with Prof. Steve Halford, developing a novel method to monitor long range DNA/protein interactions. Following that I obtained a NATO post-doctoral award to study transposition at Yale University with Nigel Grindley. Following this fellowship I joined Procter & Gamble, where I worked in the Skin Care and Pharmaceutical groups. In 1999, I joined the high throughput screening group of Pharmacia in Kalamazoo. While in Kalamazoo I helped Dr. Brian Tripp of Western Michigan University to set up a Master’s degree course in High Throughput Screening. In addition to mentoring a Master’s student through this course I also jointly directed a Post-Doctoral student (Suzanne Schreyer) who developed and evaluated novel screening strategies. In 2003, I left Pharmacia to join the Lead Discovery Group of Novartis in Cambridge, MA., and in 2005 transferred to the Cell Based Screening group in Basel, Switzerland.   

Research Interest

High throughput screening, Data analysis with an interest in cheminformatics