Mitchell
A. Miller is Director Cheminformatics within the multidisciplinary
Science Team at LION bioscience and has more than 14 years
of experience designing, developing and deploying applications
to improve research productivity. His extensive computational
background has been instrumental in developing information
systems that facilitate compound registration, browsing and
report generation, and chemical database management for several
major pharmaceutical companies. Within LION, the focus has
been on using compound information in the greater context
of research informatics.
Dr. Miller earned his bachelor’s degree in Comparative
Literature from Queens College of the City University of
New York where he also earned a master’s degree in
Chemistry. After completing his thesis, which included development
of a system that greatly reduced
the cost of large-scale ab initio molecular orbital calculations,
Dr. Miller received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the City University
of New York.
Dr. Miller joined MDL Information Systems as a Strategic
Applications Scientist and further developed his computational
chemistry skills by working on numerous database projects
and gaining considerable expertise in the field of cheminformatics.
As Quality Assurance Engineer for Internet Technologies
at MDL, Dr. Miller further enhanced his computational prowess
by developing Web-enabled database access applications and
other programs for internal and external use.
Dr. Miller is an experienced
consultant who has worked with leading pharmaceutical, agrochemical
and chemical companies. He is experienced with full software
development life cycle methodology and has a strong background
in Web technology, especially as it is applied to pharmaceutical
research.
