DR. Veerabahu Shanmugasundaram

Veer Shanmugasundaram is a drug discovery scientist and discipline leader, who leverages his broad background and experience to enrich all phases of the discovery process. He has over 20 years of biotech/pharmaceutical industrial experience from BMS, Celgene, Pfizer, Pharmacia, Pharmacia & Upjohn. Currently he is a Senior Director at BMS with portfolio and people responsibilities for BMS research sites in Cambridge, San Diego and San Francisco. 

Veer is an active member of the American Chemical Society and has been involved in COMP, CINF, MEDI technical divisions. He has served on the ACS COMP Division as an Executive Committee Member in various capacities and has also served on various ACS National Awards, Nomination & Selection Committees for COMP, MEDI and WCC divisions. 

Veer was the Chair of the 2019 CADD Gordon Research Conference that was held in Mount Snow, VT. He received the 2015 Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (B-lT) Award granted by the Department of Life Science lnformatics, University of Bonn, Germany.

Veer received his Ph.D. from State University of New York at Buffalo and conducted post-doctoral studies at Pharmacia & Upjohn in Kalamazoo, Michigan.