Norton P. Peet, Ph.D.

Director of Chemistry
Microbiotix, Inc.

One Innovation Drive
Worcester, MA 01605
Voice: (508) 757-2800

As Director of Chemistry, Dr. Peet is responsible for direction and management of the Medicinal Chemistry Department at Microbiotix and design of the chemistry for all internal and external research proposals. Dr. Peet is an organic chemist by training and has spent much of his career in big pharma, with the string of companies that led to Aventis (now Sanofi-Aventis). When he left Aventis in 2000 he was Head of Medicinal Chemistry and Distinguished Scientist. He joined the executive team at ArQule as Vice President of Discovery Alliances. At ArQule, he managed alliances with several companies and also built a Drug Discovery Group, which is now still in place as they have evolved into a cancer company (with the acquisition of Cyclis). In 2002, he co-founded and became CEO of Aurigene Discovery Technologies, a drug discovery company, and built laboratories in Boston (Lexington) and Bangalore (India). Dr. Peet has authored 145 journal articles and 65 US patents. He has organized numerous international symposia and serves on several editorial and scientific advisory boards.

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