Robert D. Clark is a senior development scientist at Tripos Inc. (1699 S. Hanley Rd., St. Louis, MO 63144; 314-647-1099). Previously, he did postdoctoral work at Brookhaven National Laboratories and worked on herbicide and fungicide physiology and synthesis at Monsanto Co. His work involves finding ways to help other chemists solve QSAR and combinatorial chemistry problems that involve biologically active small molecules. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemistry from the Ohio University and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Cornell University, where he researched microbial bioenergetics and minored in statistics and biometry. (Send e-mail to bclark@tripos.com.)
Richard D. Cramer is vice president for
science at Tripos
Inc. Previously, he founded and led the computer-aided drug design
group at SmithKline. He is best known for inventing the Comparative
Molecular Field Analysis (CoMFA) technique. His current technical
interests also include informatics, molecular diversity, and
combinatorial chemistry. He has an A.B. degree in chemistry and physics
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