James Wikel

Jim served in a variety of positions from the time he joined Eli Lilly in 1971 to 2004 as a scientist and research manager including Head, Structural and Computational Sciences, Discovery Chemistry Research & Technologies as well as Senior Research Scientist.

Jim was Chief Technology Officer of Coalesix Inc. a start up company in Cambridge MA from 2005 until it became a division of Icosystem Inc in December 2006. His experiences enable him to understand and translate among the disciplines of chemistry, biology and statistics to enable medicinal chemists to optimize molecules for drug development using both predictive models and empirical approaches. Jim has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and Master of Science degree in Organic Chemistry, both from Marshall University.