Adjunct Professor
alex_tropsha@unc.edu
Research Areas:computer-assisted drug design, cheminformatics, computational toxicology, materials informatics, structural bioinformatics, biomedical knowledge graph mining
Alexander Tropsha, Ph.D. is K.H. Lee Distinguished Professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and chief domain scientist for molecular informatics at the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI). He is also an adjunct professor at the department of biomedical engineering, department of computer science, department of applied physical sciences in the College of Arts & Sciences and the UNC School of Data Science and Society. Tropsha obtained his Ph.D. in chemical enzymology in 1986 from Moscow State University in Russia. His research interests are in the areas of computer-assisted drug design, cheminformatics, computational toxicology, materials informatics, structural bioinformatics and biomedical knowledge graph mining. He has authored or co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed research papers, reviews and book chapters. His research has been supported by multiple grants from the NIH, NSF, EPA, DOD, research foundations and private companies. He is an elected fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and a consultant to several technology and drug discovery companies.