Team
Team MFI is a multi-disciplinary group of passionate medicinal, synthetic, and computational chemists, motivated to do good and change the world, fast-tracking preclinical pharmaceutical programs on an international scale.
Mihai Burai-Patrascu, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist I
Ph.D. from McGill. Research focus: developing computational tools, with emphasis on expanding FORECASTER and use of VIRTUAL CHEMIST for asymmetric catalysis.
Suneel Kumar BVS, Ph.D.
Director of AI and Technology
Ph.D. from JNTUH, Hyderabad, India. Research Focus: Structure and ligand-based drug design, and deep learning. Suneel has more than 18 years of industry experience and has led many successful projects to preclinical and clinical stages.
Nicolas Moitessier, Ph.D.
Co-founder and CSO
Full Professor at McGill and co-founder of Molecular Forecaster. Ph.D. from Université Henri Poincaré-Nancy (France), post-doc at UdM. Current interests: integrating computational chemistry, organic/medicinal chemistry, and software development.
Ophélie Rostaing, M.Sc.
Associate Scientist II
M.Sc. from Université de Paris (France). Research focus: structure-based drug design. Ophélie previously completed an internship at McGill under the supervision of Pr. Nicolas Moitessier.