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.
Matej Janezic, Ph.D.
Associate Scientist II
Ph. D. from the University of Tokyo. Research focus: structure and ligand-based drug design. Matej previously worked at the National Institute of Chemistry in Slovenia.
Antoine Moitessier, B.Sc.
Junior Scientist II
B.Sc. Honours in Pharmacology from McGill University. Antoine worked in the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics at McGill and in the Human Health Therapeutics (HHT) Research Centre at the National Research Council (NRC).
Joshua Pottel, Ph.D.
CEO
Ph.D. from McGill. Research focus: software development in chemo- and bioinformatics. Post-doc research as an NRSA and CERSI fellow at UCSF. Co-inventor of VIRTUAL CHEMIST platform.