Christopher Southan

Chris has been Senior Cheminformatian for the BPS/IUPHAR Guide to Pharmacology, on the database curation team at the Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh, UK, since 2013, but works remotely from Göteborg, Sweden. Prior to this, he set up TW2Informatics, engaged in patent data consulting for SureChem (2011-12), and worked an extended contract assignment in the AstraZeneca Knowledge Engineering Program for testing and documenting global applications (2009-11). During 2008-9, he coordinated the ELIXIR Database Provider Survey at the EBI, preceded by a Principle Scientist and Bioinformatics Team Leader position in AstraZeneca, Mölndal (2004-7). He has also held senior bioinformatics positions at Oxford Glycosciences, Gemini Genomics, and SmithKline Beecham.

His publications (75 PMIDs and 20 patents) encompass pharmacology, protein targets, drug discovery, sequence analysis, and bioactive chemistry databases. He studied biochemistry at Dundee University (UK), virology at Reading University (UK), and did his Ph.D. at Ludwig-Maximillian University of Munich (Germany).