Adrian Amador

Director of Chemistry, Snapdragon Chemistry, a Cambrex company
Waltham, MA, USA
“We've been able to bring forward a lot of innovative ideas for how to approach peptide development using liquid phase processes to drastically improve efficiency, oftentimes by an order of magnitude over what's typically done with solid phase peptide synthesis.”

Highlights

  • Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Research experience spans academia and industry, with research in photochemistry, spectroscopy, novel photocatalytic methodologies and sustainable polymers
  • Leads a team of process chemists focused on the development of efficient manufacturing processes for complex synthetic therapeutics, including peptides, oligonucleotides and synthetic polymers

Summary

With experience in both academia and industry, Adrian brings an innovative approach to process development, using automation to develop more efficient workflows and enable more robust manufacturing processes for early phase products.

Areas of Expertise

  • Photochemistry, spectroscopy, novel photocatalytic methodologies and sustainable polymers
  • Application of automation in process development and the use of data-rich experimentation and data science to facilitate process understanding
  • Process development of complex synthetic therapeutics including peptides, oligonucleotides and synthetic polymers