Camilo Rojas, Ph.D.

Camilo Rojas received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the area of enzyme kinetics and mechanism. He subsequently held post doctoral positions at the University of Umeå, Sweden and at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. Dr. Rojas has over 18 years of corporate pharmaceutical experience at Rhône Poulenc Rorer, Guilford Pharmaceuticals, MGI Pharma and the Eisai Research Institute. His expertise includes development of enzymatic and receptor binding assays as well as drug mechanistic studies at the cell and molecular levels. He has served as a project leader, coordinating multidisciplinary research programs through target proposal, assay development, high throughput screening, lead nomination, lead optimization and clinical candidate selection. Dr. Rojas joined the BSi NeuroTranslational Drug Discovery Program as the Director of Assay Development in 2009. Camilo Rojas can be reached via email at crojas2@jhmi.edu.

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