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Christopher Southan
2Q 2025 update; registered for F-Skatt as a Swedish company with a registered name, so open for business :)
History: TW2 was was first set up in 2007 as UK Company Number 6451671 and closed down in 2021 for the duration of my MDC employment. I have used this affiliation in past publications (8 in PubMed) and presentations
Recent News: August 2024 appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh, Deanery of Biomedical Sciences.
Jan 2025: achieve 122 papers in PubMed (three from 2024)
Clarivate "Highly Cited Researcher" for 2019-2024
Older news: June 2020 contract work for Medicines Discovery Catapult , Jan 2020, University of New Mexico became a new client.
Sept 2019, appointed Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh in the Deanery of Biomedical Sciences, August 2019, work completed for a new customer Novaremed, July 2019 ; Completed a substantial Academic Drug Development report now on ChemRxiv, commissioned by Karolinska Institute, Stockholm and IUPHAR , August 2018; appointed Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico Department of Internal Medicine
Introduction: Consulting value derived from being an accomplished and flexible senior scientist with a multidisciplinary background. As well as successes in team management and project leadership I have a documented achievement record in data mining, biocuration, bioinformatics, cheminformatics, proteomics, genomics, bioactive chemistry databases, drug target discovery and protein chemistry. My experience and broad contact network encompasses both the scientific, strategic and commercial aspects of pharmaceutical and biotechnology R&D. Past clients have included the AstraZeneca Knowledge Engineering Program and SureChem (ex Digital Science and precursor of SureChEMBL)
Background: see LinkedIN profile, including a CV outline, advisory board memberships, recent publications and open recommendations
Previous recent positions: Competitive Intelligence Analyst, Informatics, Medicines Discovery Catapult, 2020-24, Senior Cheminformatican for the IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY database (2013 -18) within the Deanery of Biomedical Sciences, Edinburgh University, Scotland, working remotely from Sweden
Publications: PubMed Southan C , ORCID ID 0000-0001-9580-0446 , an h-index of 66 on Google Scholar
Blog: Bio < > Chem technical expertise showcase
Presentations: Zendo https://zenodo.org/search?q=Christopher%20Southan&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest plus older ones still on Slideshare
Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/cdsouthan.bsky.social
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cdsouthan
Contact: cdsouthan@gmail.com mobile (Sweden) 0046-702-530710, resident in Göteborg , Sweden, 42166.
Specialist Areas
Artisanal biocuration
Patent SAR extraction
Data mining
Comparative database evaluation
Chemistry extraction and connectivity between all document types and databases
Documentation for web applications, ranging from help texts, user manuals, tip-sheets, exploitation guides and strategic impact assessment
Protein and nucleotide databases, annotation and sequence analysis
PubChem slice-'n-dice masterclasses (including advanced inter-source comparisons)
Comprehensive drug target characterisation across public sources
Gene-identifier mapping, name disambiguation and drug target-assay linkages
Alignments, trees and other aspect of protein evolution
Protease drug targets and biology
Pathways, Systems Biology and Omics data
Cheminformatic exploration of sequence-target-assay-activity relationships various sources
Protein sequence-structure-ligand relationships
Comparative genomic analysis
Functional assessment of SNPs and other types of genetic variation for disease-association or pharmacogenomics
Web-based tools, databases and major portals for bioinformatics
Software evaluation and database tyre-kicking
Proteomics data evaluation
Protein separation techniques including chromatography and 2D gels
HPLC of peptides and proteins, conventional, high-speed and microbore
Student project proposals, supervision. mentoring, evaluation and PhD Opposition
Lectures/teaching/workshops
Manuscript editing
Translation of German biomedical text into English
Google Sites
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