Associate Professor Antoine de Weck joined Children’s Cancer Institute in January 2022 to establish and lead the Computationally Enabled Drug Discovery (CEDD) Group. CEDD is a hybrid (dry and wet) lab focusing on identifying new therapeutic vulnerabilities in childhood cancers, on identifying new or existing compounds capable of targeting those vulnerabilities, and on establishing an early drug discovery pipeline for small molecules targeting RNA.

Antoine’s group is a key capability of THINK (THerapeutic INnovations for Kids), an initiative dedicated to generating new therapies specifically for children with cancer and moving these from the lab to the clinic as quickly as possible. Before joining Children’s Cancer Institute, Antoine worked at the Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research in Switzerland as a computational biologist in oncology.