John P. Overington PhD

John studied Chemistry and then completed a Ph.D. in protein modeling and sequence-structure relationships, he then joined Pfizer, leading the Molecular Informatics Structure and Design department. This was followed by Inpharmatica, where he led the development of a series of computational and data platforms to improve drug discovery. In 2008 John was central to the transfer of this technology to the EMBL-EBI, as the ChEMBL database.

John then joined the Artificial Intelligence technology company - Stratified Medical (later renamed BenevolentAI), applying machine learning to the development of biomedical data extraction and integration strategies. In 2017 John joined the Medicine Discovery Catapult as CIO, where he leads the development and application of informatics approaches to promote and support application of informatics to drug discovery.