Tim Cernak

Tim Cernak is an Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Michigan. He holds appointments in the University of Michigan Department of Chemistry, the Program in Chemical Biology, the Center for Global Health Equity, the Michigan Institute for Data Science, the Michigan Center for Infectious Disease Threats, and the Department of Robotics. Tim’s research interests include chemical synthesis, data science, automation, natural products, medicinal chemistry, agrichemistry, sustainability, cell imaging, ecology, conservation, robotics and drug discovery. Prior to joining the University of Michigan in 2018, Tim worked for 9 years at Merck Research Laboratories in Rahway, NJ and Boston, MA where he studied diverse diseases. Tim performed his studies in chemistry at UBC Okanagan and McGill University, and as a Post-doctoral Fellow at Columbia University. Tim has served on the Advisory Board of The University of Dundee’s Drug Discovery Unit, The Open Reaction Database and Scorpion Therapeutics. He is a co-founder of Iambic Therapeutics. Tim is a Research Fellow of Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, where he works to advance Conservation Chemistry.

Biodiversity, conservation, AI in drug discovery, organic chemistry

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