Gunaretnam (Guna) Rajagopal
Personal Information
Organization / Workplace
Janssen, Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and JohnsonLocation
Greater New York City Area United StatesOccupation
VP - Global Head, Computational Sciences, Discovery Sciences at Janssen, Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and JohnsonIndustry
Medical / Health Care / Pharmaceuticals
Website
http://www.cinj.orgAbout
Drug Discovery - I lead a multi-disciplinary team of physicists, mathematicians, HPC experts, computational biologists, statisticians, bioinformatics specialists and wet lab scientists. Our mission is to work with researchers within and outside our company to generate, evaluate and translate biomedical data into drug targets that lead to transformational, safe and effective medicines. To this end, my team is heavily engaged in deploying bioinformatics, machine learning and cutting-edge computational modeling and simulations techniques. Our in silico activities are complemented and experimentally validated by wet lab capabilities within the team utilizing stem cell, molecular genetics, gen...