Vigneshwaran Namasivayam

Vigneshwaran Namasivayam is a research scientist with extensive experience in building and leading cross-functional teams to support pharmaceutical R&D, in both biotech and large pharma. He is a skilled software developer and designer of numerous successful algorithms and management systems widely used by scientific community. He has widely published (68+ publications) across the areas of drug discovery including cheminformatics, computational chemistry, molecular modeling, artificial intelligence, and database management. He is also an innovator and scientific advisor having multiple international patents (3 published) with experience in intellectual property development.

Before association with Dewpoint, he was Project leader (Senior Research Scientist) at Pharmaceutical Institute, University of Bonn, Germany, where he was involved in the field of cheminformatics, computational chemistry, data analysis, and molecular modeling. He gained his doctoral degree from Leipzig University, Germany (2009). He carried out his postdoctoral research at the Technical University of Munich, Germany (2010). Prior to his doctoral studies in Germany, he worked as a Research Executive (2004–2006) at Orchid Chemical and Pharmaceutical Limited, Chennai, India.