Mr Jarrod Walsh

Jarrod is currently a Director in AstraZeneca’s Hit Discovery department with over 20 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry. He joined AstraZeneca’s High Throughput Screening (HTS) team in 2000 after graduating from the University of Liverpool with a degree in Genetics. During his career he’s remained aligned with early stage drug discovery and primarily hit identification working extensively with screening applications, assay development activities and biophysical technologies. Since 2012 Jarrod focused on devising approaches to identify and eliminate compounds functioning via undesirable mechanisms of action to improve the quality of hit to lead compounds. He now leads a team dedicated to applying biochemical and biophysical screening methodologies.