Pharma/biotech consultant
Embedded Consulting
Illinois, USA
Tom von Geldern has been an independent consultant to the pharmaceutical and biotech industries since 2007, specializing in medicinal chemistry and discovery strategy and tactics. Prior to this, Dr. von Geldern spent over 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry, most recently serving as a Research Fellow and Senior Group Leader at Abbott Laboratories. In this capacity he led medicinal chemistry efforts resulting in the identification of clinical candidates in the areas of oncology, inflammation, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. He is an author of 78 peer-reviewed articles, an inventor on 42 US patent applications, and has lectured by invitation on more than 40 occasions. Dr. von Geldern received S.B. degrees in Chemistry, Mathematics, and Biology from MIT, a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley, and performed post-doctoral research at Stanford University.
