Gilles Goetz
Pfizer, USA
Biography
Gilles Goetz is a Principal Scientist at Pfizer in Groton, Connecticut, USA. He received his BSc (1991) and PhD (1995) at the University of Strasbourg in France. After his Post-doctoral studies at the University of Hawaii (1996-97) and of Neuchatel (CH) (1998-99) studying marine and fungal natural products, he joined Monsanto in 2000. There, he worked through mergers and acquisitions for Pharmacia and Pfizer successively in the natural product group, the HTS group (analytical support), and the purification group. In 2010, he transferred to the expert purification group at Pfizer Groton and in 2011 to the molecular properties group. He is a part of the team influencing medicinal chemistry design through insights into molecular properties such as polarity, lipophilicity, shape, and conformation that will impact molecular behaviors like solubility, permeability, and efflux. They develop and use mainly chromatographic techniques (EPSA) to assess those properties, and work towards predicting molecular behaviors.