Peter Toogood is Director of Michigan Drug Discovery, a campus-wide initiative to translate academic discoveries into new advances in medicine at the University of Michigan. He previously held the position of Senior Vice President for Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Lycera, an Ann Arbor based company focused on cancer and autoimmune disease drug discovery. In this role, he was a member of the executive team, reporting to the CEO and was a key scientific leader, helping to advance multiple compounds to the clinic.

Prior to joining Lycera, Dr Toogood worked at Parke-Davis/Pfizer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His drug discovery experience encompasses the fields of immunology/inflammation, infectious diseases and cancer. He was a co-inventor of the cyclin-dependent kinase-4 inhibitor Ibrance® (palbociclib), for which he has been recognized by the American Chemical Society with both a Heroes in Chemistry Award (2016) and a Team Innovation Award (2017). Before joining Parke-Davis, Dr. Toogood served as a member of the chemistry faculty of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he established an NIH and NSF funded research program in natural products total synthesis and chemical biology. He received his Ph.D. from Imperial College, London, working with Professor Steven V. Ley, and was a NATO postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Professor Jeremy R. Knowles at Harvard.