Emma R. Parmee PhD

Emma Parmee is an Associate Vice President leading the Exploratory Chemistry Group at Merck and Co.. In that capacity she is responsible for a cross-network group whose role is to identify and advance novel projects to the Lead Optimization stage gate. Previously, she was head of the Discovery Chemistry Department at Merck & Co.'s West Point, PA.

Until 2010 she was in the Medicinal Chemistry department at Merck & Co., Rahway, NJ., where she rose to the level of Senior Director, working in Cardiometabolic Diseases. She obtained her Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in Organic Chemistry from Oxford University in the U.K. She then came to the U.S. and held a NATO Postdoctoral position at MIT where her work focused on the development of novel catalytic asymmetric aldol reactions. Emma has over twenty years of experience in the Pharmaceutical industry working in numerous therapeutic areas.