Ernest Awoonor-Williams

Ernest completed his B.Sc (Hons) at Mount Allison University, Canada, where he was fortunate to dabble in multiple research projects in organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and chemical physics. Upon completion of his bachelor’s degree, Ernest moved to Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, Canada, to pursue his doctorate in computational biophysics under the tutelage of Prof. Christopher Rowley. Ernest’s Ph.D. research explored the use of computational methods in modelling the covalent modification of druggable cysteines in enzyme targets. Currently, Ernest is an Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Novartis Institute for BioMedical research in Cambridge, MA, exploring in silico approaches towards drug discovery.