Conference Speaker

Carlos Garcia-Echeverria

Carlos Garcia-Echeverria, Ph.D. has served as Global Head of Oncology Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmacology and Deputy Global Head of Oncology Drug Discovery and Preclinical Development at Sanofi since April 2010. From June 1993 to March 2010, Dr. Garcia-Echeverria held several positions of increasing responsibility at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research. In his last position as Executive Director of Oncology Drug Discovery, he was responsible for managing the late drug discovery programs at the Novartis Oncology Research site in Basel, Switzerland. His research activities have been mainly focused on the identification and development of inhibitors of protein and lipid kinases, proteolytic enzymes and antagonists of intracellular protein-protein interactions. Dr Garcia-Echeverria received the Leonidas Zervas Award from the European Peptide Society in 2006, and has made significant contributions to the identification and development of targeted cancer therapies advancing seven drug candidates to Phase I/II clinical trials. He is an inventor on 30 patents, and has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and review papers. Dr Garcia-Echeverria received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Barcelona (Spain) in 1993.

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