Brian Goldman

Brian Goldman is the Senior Vice President and Chief Computation Officer.

Dr. Goldman brings almost thirty years of experience in algorithms and software for molecular modeling, cheminformatics, medicinal chemistry, and image analysis. He spent the past 20 years at Vertex, where he led the methods group in the Modeling and Informatics department and focused on applying ML methods to impact drug discovery programs.

Dr. Goldman has deep chemistry roots, having earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California at Santa Cruz where he studied differential geometry as applied to molecular surfaces and molecular similarity calculations. Prior to joining Vertex, he worked at CombiChem, a computational drug discovery firm.