Eric is the Director of Protein Science and brings over 20 years of experience in protein biochemistry and structural biology. As protein science lead at SEED, Eric focuses on rigorously identifying and exploiting weak protein : protein interactions (PPIs) which lie at the starting line of rational molecular glue (MG) development. He and his team synthesize the protein reagents, establish PPI and functional assays, and perform biophyical characterization for driving SEED’s hit-to-lead stage MG discovery campaigns.
Before joining SEED, Eric led the US protein team at OriGene Technologies, overseeing custom protein design and production and managing the portfolio of over 10,000 recombinant proteins. During his postdoctoral training at the NIH, he employed reconstitution and crystallographic methods to resolve structural mechanisms of iron transport/trafficking and autophagosome maturation. Eric earned a Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine while delineating the molecular steps of mitochondrial perforation by the BCL-2 protein family.