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NAME

 

Chris Meichung Wang Ho

POSITION TITLE

 

Chief Executive Officer

Drug Design Methodologies, L.L.C.

 

EDUCATION/TRAINING  (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)

INSTITUTION AND LOCATION

DEGREE

(if applicable)

YEAR(s)

FIELD OF STUDY

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

B.S.

1987

Biology

Washington University School of Medicine

St. Louis, MO

M.D. Ph.D.

1996

Medicine, Pharmacology

Professional Experience:
1990-1999         Teaching Assistant, Washington University
1996-Present     Consultant:  Computer aided drug design specialist -Pfizer Pharmaceutical Research,
                        Pharmacia, and Tripos Associates.
1996-Present     CEO, Drug Design Methodologies, LLC.

Awards and Other Professional Activities:
Medical Scientist Training Program - Washington University M.D.Ph.D. program (full tuition & stipend)
Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin fellow, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
Purdue University Class of 1987 – Valedictorian

Selected Relevant Publications:

1.   Ho, C.M.W. and Marshall, G.R., “CAVITY SEARCH: An Algorithm for the Isolation and Display of Cavity-like Binding Regions,” J. Comp. Aided Molec. Design, (1990) 4:337-354.

2.   Ho, C.M.W. and Marshall, G.R., “FOUNDATION: A Program to Retrieve All Possible Structures Containing a User-Defined Minimum Number of Matching Query Elements from Three-Dimensional Databases,” J. Comp. Aided Molec. Design, (1993) 7:3-22.

3.   Ho, C.M.W. and Marshall, G.R., “SPLICE: A Program to Assemble Partial Query Solutions from Three-Dimensional Database Searches into Novel Ligands,”J. Comp. Aided Molec. Design, (1993) 7:623-647.

4.   Ho, C.M.W. and Marshall, G.R., “Denovo Design of Ligands,” Proceedings of the 27th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences – Vol. V: Biotechnology Computing, IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, (1994) 213-222.

5.   Ho, C.M.W. and Marshall, G.R., “DBMAKER: A Set of Programs to Generate Three-Dimensional Databases Based Upon User-Specified Criteria,” J. Comp. Aided Molec. Design, (1995) 9:65-86.

6.   Oprea, T.I., Ho, C.M.W. and Marshall, G.R., “De Novo Design: Ligand Construction and Prediction of Affinity,” in Computer-Aided Molecular Design – Applications in Agrochemicals, Materials, and Pharmaceuticals. ACS Symposium Series 1995, Reynolds, C.H., Holloway, M.K. and Cox, H.K.

7.   Marshall, G.R., Ho, C.M.W., Head, R.D., Smythe, M.L., Oprea, T.I., Waller, C.L., and Green, S.M., “3D QSAR and De Novo Design: Choosing the Appropriate Tools,” in QSAR and Molecular Modelling: Concepts, Computational Tools, and Biological Applications, F. Sanz, J. Giraldo, and F. Manaut, Eds., Prous Science Publishers, Barcelona, Spain (1995) 623-629.