Gender Male
Bill is the Vice President of Drug Discovery and a Co-Founder of Generian. He is also an Associate Professor at University of Pittsburgh, where he directs the Small Molecule Therapeutic Center, and is the Co-Director of the Acute Lung Injury Center of Excellence within the Department of Medicine. In addition to Generian, he also co-Founded E3
Therapeutics and Koutif Therapeutics. Bill was instrumental in developing novel series of first-in-class small molecule FBXO3 protein inhibitors. One of his lead compounds, BC-1261 has received IND approval from FDA. Bill has co-authored more than 60 publications in top-tier journals related to the mechanism of protein ubiquitination and drug discovery—including Nature Immunology, Nature Medicine, Cell Reports and Science Translational Medicine, Journal of Experimental Medicine, and eLife. He is the recipient of NHLBI Emerging Investigator Award (R35). Bill obtained his PhD from the University of Iowa.
