Anabella Villalobos

Anabella Villalobos
Anabella Villalobos
Alma mater	University of Panama, B.S. in Chemistry; University of Kansas, PhD in Medicinal chemistry
	Scientific career
Fields	Medicinal chemistry
Institutions	Yale University as NIH Postdoctoral Fellow; Pfizer Biogen;

Anabella P. Villalobos is a medicinal chemist and senior pharmaceutical executive at Biogen.^[1]

Background and career

Villalobos was raised in Panama City. She received her BS in chemistry from the University of Panama, received her Ph.D. (1987) at the University of Kansas with Professor Lester A. Mitscher, and was a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, working with Samuel J. Danishefsky.^[1]^[2] She joined Pfizer in 1989, working on a variety of Central nervous system (CNS) projects in medicinal chemistry,^[3] diagnostics, and Positron emission tomography imaging radiotracers against Alzheimer's disease.^[4]^[5] In 2001, Villalobos became Head of CNS Medicinal Chemistry, and in 2007 Head of Antibacterial and CNS Chemistry.^[6] By 2016, she was VP of Neuroscience and Pain medicinal chemistry, and published a video outreach campaign to describe her work.^[7] In 2017, Villalobos was recruited to be the Senior Vice President for Biotherapeutics & Medicinal Sciences at Biogen.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Biogen Appoints Anabella Villalobos Senior Vice President, Biotherapeutic & Medicinal Sciences". Retrieved 2020-07-12.
^ ^a ^b "Villalobos, Anabella". American Chemical Society. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
^ Wager, Travis T.; Hou, Xinjun; Verhoest, Patrick R.; Villalobos, Anabella (2016-06-15). "Central Nervous System Multiparameter Optimization Desirability: Application in Drug Discovery". ACS Chemical Neuroscience. 7 (6): 767–775. doi:10.1021/acschemneuro.6b00029. PMID 26991242.
^ Zhang, Lei; Chen, Laigao; Dutra, Jason K.; Beck, Elizabeth M.; Nag, Sangram; Takano, Akihiro; Amini, Nahid; Arakawa, Ryosuke; Brodney, Michael A.; Buzon, Leanne M.; Doran, Shawn D. (2018-04-26). "Identification of a Novel Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Ligand for Imaging β-Site Amyloid Precursor Protein Cleaving Enzyme 1 (BACE-1) in Brain". Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 61 (8): 3296–3308. doi:10.1021/acs.jmedchem.7b01769. ISSN 0022-2623. PMID 29356535.
^ "Clinical-Stage Biotech Developing Treg-based Therapies". Coya Therapeutics. Retrieved 2023-08-23.
^ "Professor Robin Zavod, PhD, 1992, University of Kansas". studylib.net. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
^ Villalobos, Anabella (2016). "What We're Working On". YouTube. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
^ "Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame to Honor Niantic's Anabella Villalobos". The Lymes, CT Patch. 2014-10-23. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
^ "Alzheimer's research wins award for Pfizer". Retrieved 2020-07-12 – via PressReader.