About
Our Company
Decode Therapeutics was founded by Dr. Stephan Schürer, Dr. Nagi Ayad and Dr. Vasileios Stathias. Dr. Schürer is a Professor in Department of Pharmacology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Director of Drug Discovery at the Center for Computational Science at the University of Miami. Dr. Ayad is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and co-director of the University of Miami Brain Tumor Initiative. Dr. Stathias is a Lead Data Scientist in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Our Team
Stephan Schürer, PhD
Dr. Stephan C. Schürer (aka Shuerer) joined the Center for Computational Science in October 2008 leading the Drug Discovery program (then called Cheminformatics). His research is centered in computer-aided drug design, cheminformatics, translational drug informatics, and semantic integration with the goal to better synergize experimental and ‘in-silico’ approaches for the development of small molecule tool compounds and drug “leads”. His laboratory develops and applies computational compound and protein target profiling for drug discovery, new ontologies and software for integration and analysis of diverse screening data sets, and cheminformatics infrastructure for large scale data analysis. Dr. Schürer is also interested in developing novel cheminformatics approaches to address synthetic feasibility and synthetically accessible chemical space.
Nagi Ayad, PhD
Nagi G. Ayad, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery, Co-director of the University of Miami Brain Tumor Initiative, a member of the Center for Therapeutic Innovation, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, and the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Ayad received his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University in 1992, worked for Merck & Co., Inc. as a biochemist and then pursued graduate studies with Dr. Ira Mellman at Yale University. Dr. Ayad completed his Ph.D. in Cell Biology in 1998 and moved to Harvard Medical School in 1999 to perform a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Marc Kirschner. Dr. Ayad then joined The Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida as an Assistant Professor in 2005 and moved to the University of Miami as an Associate Professor in 2011. Dr. Ayad has published in top-tier journals and has several awards. His laboratory is interested in using multi-omics approaches for identifying therapies for brain tumors.