Dr. Michael Thormann

Michael Thormann received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Leipzig in 1998. He worked in the field of secondary structure design and conformational analysis of special non-natural peptides. He held several post-doctoral positions at the University of Barcelona and Polytechnical University of Catalonia. He invented protein- and ligand-based drug design methods, QSPR, parallel evolutionary search algorithms, and multiparametric optimisation techniques for the proprietary MOREsystem® as Head of Molecular Modelling at Morphochem AG. At Origenis, he is responsible for the computer-aided method development, implementation, and application for MOREsystem®.