Primary Job Title Co-Founder, CEO & President Primary Organization Scientist.com
Location San Diego, California, United States Regions Greater San Diego Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Kevin Lustig is the Founder and CEO at Scientist.com.
Kevin Lustig Head Shot Recently named one of the Pharmaceutical Industry’s 100 Most Inspiring People by PharmaVoice Magazine, Kevin is a scientist-entrepreneur with 30 years of research experience in academia and pharma. His research discoveries have been published in Science, Nature and other
leading scientific journals and he has eight technology patents.
He is co-founder and CEO of Assay Depot, which owns and operates a network of online research exchanges that have the potential to dramatically improve how scientific research is done. In 2001, Kevin co-founded Kalypsys, a fully integrated drug discovery company that raised over $170 million in venture funding and put five drug candidates into human clinical trials. Prior to Kalypsys, he directed lead discovery at Tularik, a highly successful biopharmaceutical company purchased by Amgen for more than $2 billion.
He carried out postdoctoral work in Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School after receiving a PhD degree from Marc Kirschner's laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Kevin has a M.S. degree in Biochemistry from the University of Missouri, Columbia and an A.B. degree, magna cum laude, in Molecular and Cell Biology from Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences.
