William Berger
Education:
Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry (2007-Present)
Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at
Stony Brook
Advisor : Dr. Iwao Ojima
B.S. in
Chemistry and History – 2005
State University of New York at Stony Brook (2001- 2005) Chemistry (Advisor Dr. Kathlyn
A. Parker)
State University of New York at Binghamton (1998 –
2001) Transferred (Major Biology)
Work Experience:
6/2001 – 9/2007 Luitpold
Pharmaceuticals /American Regent Laboratories (Daiichi-Sankyo)
Method Development (2005 – 2007) Development and validation for the
submission of new drug treatments.
Purchasing of new equipment and software for the laboratory. Qualification of new equipment and
software. Review and authorization
of validation protocols. Authorship
and editing of new SOP’s and monographs. Technology transfer to Quality
Control. Departmental
Auditing.
Quality Control (2002 – 2005) Bench chemist, Finished Product, Raw
Material, and Stability Testations.
Production (2001
-2002) Formulation
Research
Interests:
Synthesis of medicinally active compounds
Structural activity relationships / pharmacophore
models
Virtual screening and rational design of novel inhibitors
Teaching
Experience:
Teaching Assistant,
Synthetic Organic Chemistry Laboratory, (CHE 383 & 384), SUNY at Stony
Brook 2007-2008