# Dr. Ken Carson

> Dr. Ken Carson is Advisor and Head of Medicinal Chemistry at Peptone.

[View this page on Peptone](https://peptone.io/about/team/ken-carson/)

## Role

Advisor and Head of Medicinal Chemistry

Groups: advisory, team

Dr. Ken Carson serves Peptone as Advisor and Head of Medicinal Chemistry. He brings extensive drug discovery leadership from HotSpot Therapeutics, Macroceutics, Lexicon, Millennium, and LeukoSite, with experience in medicinal chemistry and DNA-encoded libraries; he holds a PhD in organic chemistry from Cornell and has advanced multiple compounds into clinical development.