Scott Kahn, Ph.D.
Chief Information Officer
"Accurate Whole Genome Sequencing; Today and Beyond"
WHEN: Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 4:00PMWHERE: 177 Stanley Hall
About the speaker:
Dr. Kahn has over a decade of experience in computational chemistry and he has guided commercial development of some of the world's most widely used simulation products. His record includes involvement in the development of analysis tools for medicinal chemistry and in the creation of commercial modeling packages. Dr. Kahn received his Ph.D. in theoretical organic chemistry from the University of California, Irvine, after which he did post-doctoral work at Cambridge University, UK. He is a former Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Kahn also served as Chief Scientific Officer at Accelrys Inc., and was a key figure in product development and marketing at BioCAD Inc. and Molecular Simulations Inc.