Andrea Volkamer

Andrea Volkamer studied bioinformatics at Saarland University from 2001 to 2007 and graduated with a Master of Science. From 2007 to 2008, she was a visiting scientist at Purdue University in Indiana (USA). She then completed her doctorate at the University of Hamburg at the Center for Bioinformatics (ZBH), where she was awarded the title of Dr. rer nat. in the computer science department in 2013.{{Cite web |last=Volkamer |first=Andrea |title=Andrea Volkamer |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-volkamer-a7b74867/ |access-date=2023-07-27 |website=LinkedIn}} In 2013, Andrea Volkamer was awarded a Pro Exzellenzia PostDoc Fellowship, a program of the University of Hamburg that qualifies women for leadership positions. In the same year, she accepted a position as a postdoc at the BioMedX Institute in Heidelberg, where she stayed until 2016 and – together with Merck KGaA – worked on methods for developing selective kinase inhibitors.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Neue Professorin für Data Driven Drug Development |url=https://www.uni-saarland.de/universitaet/organisation/fakultaeten/professuren/neu/volkamer.html |access-date=2023-07-27 |website=Universität des Saarlandes |language=de}}

This was followed by an appointment as junior professor at the Charité in Berlin, where Andrea Volkamer led a working group on structural bioinformatics and in silico toxicology from 2016 to 2022. As part of the BMBF-funded Berlin-Brandenburg Research Platform (BB3R), the working group was concerned, among other things, with the development of new computer methods for the risk assessment of chemicals to reduce the use of animal experiments in basic research.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Team Volkamer - in silico toxicology and structural bioinformatics |url=https://physiologie-ccm.charite.de/en/research_at_the_institute/volkamer_lab/ |access-date=2023-07-27 |website=Charité - Institute of Physiology |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2014-04-15 |title=PC-based Simulation in drug discovery |url=https://www.bb3r.de/en/forschungsplattform/teilprojekte/Teilprojekt-Pries-Preissner-Volkamer/index.html |access-date=2023-07-27 |website=Berlin-Brandenburg research platform BB3R |language=en}} Furthermore, she is working on structure-based methods to identify new kinase inhibitors. In this context, she was also able to win professors John Chodera as an Einstein Visiting Fellow.{{Cite web |last=Chodera |first=John |date=2018-10-20 |title=The Chodera lab teams up with Andrea Volkamer to explore the interface of machine learning and free energy calculations |url=https://www.choderalab.org/news/2018/10/20/the-chodera-lab-teams-up-with-andrea-volkamer-to-explore-the-interface-of-machine-learning-and-free-energy-calculations |access-date=2023-07-27 |website=Chodera lab // MSKCC |language=en-US}}

In 2022, Andrea Volkamer returned to Saarland University and has since held the professorship for Data-Driven Drug Design at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. She is also an associate scientist at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS).

Andrea Volkamer supports open science and open source developments.{{Cite web |title=Volkamer Lab |url=https://github.com/volkamerlab |access-date=2023-07-27 |website=GitHub |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=openkinome |url=https://github.com/openkinome |access-date=2023-07-27 |website=GitHub |language=en}} Among other things, she is driving the development of TeachOpenCADD, an open teaching platform for computer-aided drug design (CADD),{{Cite journal |last=Sydow |first=Dominique |last2=Rodríguez-Guerra |first2=Jaime |last3=Kimber |first3=Talia B |last4=Schaller |first4=David |last5=Taylor |first5=Corey J |last6=Chen |first6=Yonghui |last7=Leja |first7=Mareike |last8=Misra |first8=Sakshi |last9=Wichmann |first9=Michele |last10=Ariamajd |first10=Armin |last11=Volkamer |first11=Andrea |date=2022-05-07 |title=TeachOpenCADD 2022: open source and FAIR Python pipelines to assist in structural bioinformatics and cheminformatics research |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac267 |journal=Nucleic Acids Research |volume=50 |issue=W1 |pages=W753–W760 |doi=10.1093/nar/gkac267 |issn=0305-1048 |pmc=9252772 |pmid=35524571}} and has been involved in the free “Dr. med. AI” learning offer of AI Campus.{{Cite web |title=Dr. med. KI - Basics {{!}} KI-Campus |url=https://www.ki-campus.org/courses/drmedki_basics?language_content_entity=de |access-date=2023-07-27 |website=AI Campus |language=en}}

• Board member, Computer in Chemistry (CIC) of the German Chemical Society{{Cite web |title=Board Computers in Chemistry (CIC) |url=https://en.gdch.de/network-structures/gdch-structures/computers-in-chemistry-cic/board.html |access-date=2023-07-27 |website=German Chemical Society |language=en-US}} (2021–2024)
• Corwin Hansch Award (QSAR, Chemoinformatics and Modeling Society (QCMS)){{Cite web |date=2022-09-21 |title=Integrative data-intensive research for better drug design |url=https://www.h-its.org/2022/09/21/euroqsar-2022/ |access-date=2023-07-27 |website=HITS |language=en-US}} (2022)
• Journals:
• Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (Editorial Advisory Board){{Cite web |title=Editors & Editorial Board |url=https://pubs.acs.org/page/jcisd8/editors.html |access-date=2023-07-27 |website=Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling}}
• Living Journal of Computational Molecular Science (Editorial Board){{Cite web |title=Editorial Team {{!}} Living Journal of Computational Molecular Science |url=https://livecomsjournal.org/index.php/livecoms/about/editorialTeam |access-date=2023-07-27 |website=livecomsjournal.org}}
• Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences (Editorial Board){{Cite web |title=Editorial board - Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences {{!}} ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/artificial-intelligence-in-the-life-sciences/about/editorial-board |access-date=2023-07-27 |website=www.sciencedirect.com}}

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• [https://volkamerlab.org/ Volkamer Lab]
• [https://projects.volkamerlab.org/teachopencadd/ TeachOpenCADD]
• [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3760-580X ORCiD]

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Category:1982 births

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