Hello,

I am a Pharmacist with a double Ph.D. in Drug Sciences from the Université Grenoble Alpes (France) and Drug Design and Synthesis from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil). Between 2012 and 2014 I acted as assistant teacher in Medicinal and Organic Chemistry at the Pharmacy School of the UFPE and UNINASSAU (Brazil). In 2017 I realized a first postdoc (7 months) in Medicinal Chemistry and Chemoinformatics between the Département de Pharmacochimie Moléculaire (DPM, Grenoble) and Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC, Paris). Between 2017 and 2019 I realized a second postdoc (2 years) in the field of Medicinal Chemistry and Neurosciences in a collaboration between Grenoble Institut de Neurosciences (GIN, Grenoble) et Département de Chimie Moléculaire (DCM, Grenoble), where I designed, synthetized and tested the biological activity of new peptidomimetic drugs as stimulators of the axonal regeneration in the Central Nervous System.

In September 2019 I joined the start-up IKTOS (Paris, France) as Medicinal Chemistry Scientist and Project Leader in Lead Optimization drug discovery projects working in the interface between medicinal chemistry and data science in the field of drug design in collaboration with many pharmaceutical industries around the world. I use techniques such as:

- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- QSAR
- Ligand-Based Drug Design

I also have internal research projects, especially in the field of Feature Engineering for drug discovery projects using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence projects.

Also in September 2019 I won the BioSolveIT Scientific Challenge (fall 2018) with the project 'Chemical Rationalization of Bacterial Efflux Pump Substrates'.

Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vin%C3%ADcius-barros-21abb371/

Feel free to contact me if you want to know more about my job.
Vinícius