Nello Mainolfi

Nello is head of drug discovery at Raze Therapeutics. Before joining Raze, Nello spent almost a decade at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, where first as team member and then as interdisciplinary project team leader he contributed to the identification of more than 10 compounds that have entered preclinical and clinical development. While at Novartis he also championed new technologies such as using fragment-based drug discovery as a core strategy to deliver development candidates. Nello has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications; he is co-inventor on several patents and has written reviews in the areas of synthetic chemistry and drug discovery. Nello was trained at Imperial College, University of London and The Scripps Research Institute.