Nichola Smith

Nichola Smith is an accomplished professional in the pharmaceutical industry, currently serving as the Sr Director and Head of small molecule chemistry and DMPK groups at Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Previous roles include Head of DAx chemistry at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR), where Nichola also held positions as Associate Director of Medicinal Chemistry and Senior Investigator and Group Leader in Global Discovery Chemistry. Additionally, Nichola has expertise as a Medicinal Chemist in neuroscience at Ionix Pharmaceuticals and has contributed as a Senior Process Chemist and Process Chemist at GSK.