Richard Hatley

MChem DPhil CChem MRSC

• 20 years’ experience as a medicinal chemist in a large global pharma company.
• Wide drug discovery expertise across many therapeutic areas, drug targets and modalities.
• Detailed working knowledge of hit-identification, hit-to-lead and lead-optimisation phases to deliver high quality leads and candidate molecules suitable for clinical evaluation.
• Leading expertise in integrin drug discovery.
• Proficient in synthetic chemistry.

(i) Route design for SAR exploration.
(ii) Scale-up of candidate compounds.
(iii) Solving complex synthetic chemistry problems.

I am Director of RGDscience Ltd which is a medicinal chemistry and drug discovery consultancy company which focuses on three areas:

(i) Consulting to academia, biotechs and pharma.
(ii) Teaching and training of drug discovery and related topics to undergraduates at universities and scientists in industry.
(iii) Progression of research projects.