Vanita Sood
SVP, Head of Drug Discovery Research, Fable Therapeutics Vanita Sood is currently SVP, Head of Drug Discovery Research at Fable Therapeutics, a Versant Ventures NewCo.
About this speaker
Vanita Sood is currently SVP, Head of Drug Discovery Research at Fable Therapeutics, a Versant Ventures NewCo. With over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, she has consistently worked at the intersection of computational and experimental drug discovery. She has focused her leadership on the many aspects of drug design, including using computational chemistry and computational protein engineering to optimize potency and drug-like properties of small molecule and biotherapeutic drug candidates, respectively; using biophysical methods and cryo-EM to better understand the mechanisms of multi-specific biologics; using modeling and simulation in conjunction with innovative cell culture to better predict and optimize PK; and using generative modeling and machine learning to design and optimize therapeutics.
