Dr Artem Cherkasov
Position:
- Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, University of British Columbia
- Affiliate, Vancouver Prostate Centre
Biography:
Dr Cherkasov is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He joined the UBC Faculty in February 2003 and his research is focused on drug discovery and the development of bioinformatics and cheminformatics tools for computer-aided drug design, molecular modeling, and system biology. Dr Cherkasov’s research interests include computer-aided drug design, applications of artificial intelligence in structure-activity modeling for bioactive substances, development of large-scale bioinformatics and genomics tools and molecular modeling techniques. He has authored and co-authored more than 150 scientific articles in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings, two book chapters and more than 40 patents.
Current areas of collaboration: prostate cancer; infectious diseases.
alternative treatment, localized therapies, systemic therapies, computer-aided drug design, bioinformatics, cheminformatics, molecular modelling.
computer-aided drug design.
