Cell-Based High-Throughput Screens for Drug Discovery

By Dr Alcide Barberis, Chief Scientific Officer of ESBATech AG Dr Alcide Barberis is the Scientific Founder of ESBATech, a drug discovery company specialising in cell-based functional screening assays and high-throughput compound screens. Dr Barberis received his PhD in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from the University of Zurich in 1988. He later moved to Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow, where he began working with yeast as a model system to study the fundamental mechanisms of gene regulation.
After a period at the Research Institute San Raffaele in Milan, he became group leader at the Institute of Molecular Biology at the University of Zurich. In 2002 he left academic research to become full-time Chief Scientific Officer of ESBATech.