Philip Coish, Ph.D

Dr. Philip Coish has extensive experience as a project manager in multiple areas of drug discovery and scientific research. He received a Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry from the University of British Columbia and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh. He started his professional career at Bayer Healthcare as a drug researcher and was involved in project leadership and portfolio management. He then worked at Sepracor (now Sunovion) as an Associate Director where he was a portfolio manager and contributed to the growth and development of the early discovery research portfolio. After Sepracor,he joined BioRelix, a start-up biotech that was focused on identifying novel anti-infective drug treatments. Phil served as Director of Chemistry and managed a virtual chemistry department and its associated relationships. He is currently a program manager within the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale.