Mela Mulvihill

Mela Mulvihill is a Director and Senior Principal Scientist in the Biochemical and Cellular Pharmacology department at Genentech leading the biophysics group. Mela has been instrumental in expanding the application of information-rich biophysical techniques such as SPR and MS to small molecule lead finding, characterization, and optimization. She is a project team leader and has significantly contributed to Genentech's fragment, covalent, and degrader drug discovery strategies. Mela earned her B.S. in Chemistry at Sonoma State University, Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.