Author: Didier Rognan

Didier Rognan leads the Drug Bioinformatics Group at the Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacochemistry in Illkirch (France). He obtained a graduate degree in Pharmacy from the University of Rennes and completed his Ph D in Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Strasbourg under the supervision of Camille G. Wermuth in 1989. Moving to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich he became Assistant Professor at the ETH before being named a research director at the CRNS in Illkirch near Strasbourg in 2000. Professor Rognan is mainly interested in all aspects (method development, applications) of protein-based drug design and virtual screening.