Accutar Biotech Inc., a technology company specialized in AI guided drug discovery, announced Dr. Carlos Garcia-Echeverria serves as CEO advisor to support the company’s internal drug discovery pipeline.
“We are honored to have Dr. Garcia-Echeverria’s insights to develop best-in-class and first-in-class medicines for unmet medical needs,” said Jie Fan, PhD, founder and CEO of Accutar, “Carlos sets a high bar for our AI guided drug discovery efforts which is extremely instrumental to our company philosophy, because in this business, Science Prevails.”
Dr. Carlos Garcia-Echeverria, Ph.D.
Dr. Carlos Garcia-Echeverria currently serves as Chief of Rx Creation at EQRx. He was the chief operating officer of research and global head of research platforms at Sanofi, where he was responsible for overseeing the establishment and execution of the Sanofi research strategy. Before joining Sanofi in 2010, Carlos held several positions of increasing responsibility at Novartis, including executive director, oncology drug discovery head, where he was responsible for managing multiple late-stage drug discovery cancer programs. Carlos is an inventor on 45 patents and has published more than 190 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and review papers. He received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Barcelona.