Dr. Roman Manetsch received his PhD in Chemistry in 2002 from the University of Basel under the guidance of Wolf-Dietrich Woggon. He joined the group of K. Barry Sharpless at the Scripps Research Institute working on click chemistry. In 2005, he moved to the University of South Florida and established a research group focusing on medicinal chemistry. In 2014, Dr. Manetsch assumed a position of an Associate Professor at Northeastern University. His current research focuses on lead discovery and optimization using synthetic chemistry in close conjunction with mass spectrometry.
