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Alexander Mayweg

Managing Director at Versant Ventures

Basel, Basel

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

Drug Discovery
Medicinal Chemistry
Organic Synthesis
Pharmaceutical Industry
Drug Development
Infectious Diseases
Lead Change
Leadership
Life Sciences
Drug Design
R&D
Organic Chemistry
High Throughput Screening
Oncology
Virology
Chemistry
Cheminformatics
Biotechnology
Lifesciences
Biochemistry

Education

Work Experience

  • Managing Director

    2020

  • Partner

    2018 - 2020

  • Venture Partner

    2017 - 2017

  • Entrepreneur in Residence

    2016 - 2016

  • Founding CSO

    2017

  • Board Director

    2017

  • Board Member

    2017

  • President and CSO

    2017

  • Board Director

    2018

  • Board Director

    2018

2006 - 2016

  • Global Head of Medicinal Chemistry | Principal Leader, VP

    2013 - 2016

    Global head of medicinal chemistry across Basel, Shanghai and New York research sites.

  • Head of Antibiotics Disease Area (Additional Responsibility) | Senior Leader

    2012 - 2014

    Head of antibiotics disease area including strategy, biology and chemistry in Shanghai and Basel

  • Site Head of Medicinal Chemistry | Senior Leader

    2011 - 2013

    Site Head of the medicinal and computational chemistry departments at Roche R&D Center Shanghai

  • Section Head in Discovery Chemistry Technologies & Metabolic Diseases | Leader

    2011 - 2011

    International assignment as Section Head of med chem III and computational chemistry departments

  • Group Leader, Medicinal Chemistry | Principal Scientist

    2009 - 2011

    Leader of four laboratory lab teams in Medicinal Chemistry 1

  • Short Term International Assignment

    2010 - 2010

    One month assignment at Indian CRO

  • Project Leader, Medicinal Chemistry | Senior Scientist

    2006 - 2009

    Project leader in medicinal chemistry in Cardiovascular and Metabolism

2003 - 2006

  • Project Leader, Research Informatics (Additional Responsibility) | Senior Scientist

    2004 - 2006

    Project leader of new informatics Knowledge Capture Project

  • Laboratory Head, Medicinal Chemistry | Scientist

    2003 - 2006

  • Medicinal Chemistry Placement | Research Chemist

    1996 - 1997