Prof. A. Peter Johnson biography

Professor A. Peter Johnson is professor of computational chemistry and organic chemistry at the School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, UK. He has extensive knowledge and experience in the following research areas: total synthesis of natural products; development of new synthetic methods; synthesis of designed catalysts and synthetic receptors; development of software for structure based drug design eg SPROUT for de novo ligand design, CAESA for estimation of synthetic accessibility; development of software for automatic extraction of chemical information from scanned images of chemistry journals. Prof. Johnson is author of over 100 publications and several book chapters. In the past 30 years, apart from his academic career, he has been instrumental in founding and also successfully growing several business entities, including ORAC (now part of Symyx), Synopsys (now part of Accelrys), and SimBioSys.