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David Drake

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Drug Discovery IT Capability Lead at AstraZeneca
📍 Stockport, England, United Kingdom

David is a scientific IT leader at AstraZeneca, heading the Drug Discovery IT Capability. With a DPhil in Organic Chemistry from Oxford and over 19 years in informatics, he specializes in aligning R&D and IT strategy. Colleagues describe him as insightful, diligent, supportive, and team-spirited.

His career uniquely bridges hands-on discovery chemistry with shaping global enterprise IT and data architecture for pharmaceutical research.

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Experience
9 Years
Current Role
Drug Discovery IT Capability Lead
Job Level
Middle
Location
Stockport, England, United Kingdom
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Cheminformatics Challenges
He recently hosted a Pistoia Alliance panel discussion focused on persistent challenges in cheminformatics, including data standardization and interoperability for complex molecules.
Digital Biopharma
Presented and chaired a panel at the Bio-IT World symposium on exploring digitalization strategies for Biologics R&D, indicating a focus on modernizing biopharmaceutical research.
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Career

Work history

8-2020
Drug Discovery IT Capability Lead
AstraZeneca
2-2020 - 8-2020
Senior Enterprise Data Architect
AstraZeneca
9-2016 - 2-2020
Early Science Domain Architect Lead
AstraZeneca
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Education
1991 - 1995
DPhil
University of Oxford
2016 - 2021
Postgrad Diploma in Data Science
University of Edinburgh Online Learning
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