Dr David Clark, Argenta

Dr David E. Clark is Director of Computer-aided Drug Design (CADD) and Information Services and was a founding scientific team member of Argenta Discovery in 2000. David began his career working for Proteus Molecular Design for 3 years where he was involved in developing software for de novo ligand design and protein-ligand docking.

He then spent 4 years working in the CADD group of Aventis/Rhone-Poulenc Rorer before joining Argenta. David is a graduate of the University of Oxford where he studied chemistry. His post-graduate studies (MSc, PhD) were carried out at the Department of Information Studies at University of Sheffield under the supervision of Professor Peter Willett.

In 2003, David was the recipient of the Corwin Hansch award, which is presented annually by the QSAR and Modelling Society.