Robert Hughes

Robert is Head of Molecular Discovery at Disarm Therapeutics. He has more than 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry.

Prior to joining Disarm, Robert was a Senior Associate Director and Senior Research Fellow at Boehringer-Ingelheim and prior to that a Senior Principal Scientist at Pfizer. Robert has contributed to the delivery of two novel drug candidates into clinical-proof-of concept trials and to the identification and development of >15 clinical candidates across multiple therapeutic areas. He is the author of over 45 patents and peer-reviewed publications.

He earned his PhD in synthetic organic chemistry under the guidance of Professor K.C. Nicolaou at the Scripps Research Institute and a BS in chemistry and mathematics from the University of Arizona.