Eric Gordon

Eric became a well-known medicinal chemist, senior drug discovery executive, biotech entrepreneur, venture capital investor, science-stage biotech consultant, and consulting Stanford professor. He now has 40 years of overall experience in the biotech/pharmaceutical industries, which includes 10 in biotech startups and 11 in venture investing. He has had close involvement in the discovery/development of five approved drugs (plus three in Phase 3 development) and has participated in the founding/co-founding of five companies, two of which were sold to big pharma.

Eric is an accepted authority on medicinal chemistry, antibiotic/natural product chemistry, and creating drugs through enzyme inhibition. He has authored more than 200 scientific manuscripts and U.S. patents, and portions of three books, including editing a comprehensive book on combinatorial chemistry. He is the senior author of two manuscripts, which during 1994-1996 were the most frequently cited chemistry papers in the world. For the 32-year period 1975-2007, these two papers were the number two and three most cited papers to appear in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.