Bruce D. Roth

Bruce D. Roth, Ph.D. is best known as the inventor of Lipitor®, for which he has received numerous awards, including the 2013 Perkin Medal, the highest award given to industrial chemists in the United States. Dr. Roth is now active as a biopharmaceutical research consultant. Prior to founding his consulting practice, between the years of 2007 and 2017, he held positions of increasing responsibility at Genentech, the last one being senior vice president of gRED (Genentech Research and Early Development) small molecule drug discovery and co-leader of gRED research. Before that, he served as vice president of chemistry at Pfizer Global Research and Development, Ann Arbor Laboratories, and prior to that, was an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry in the School of Pharmacy of the University of Michigan.