Advisor and Head of Medicinal Chemistry

Dr. Ken Carson

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.