Niyi Fadeyi is InduPro’s Vice President of Chemical Sciences leading discovery chemistry and chemical biology efforts for early target discovery and platform chemistry technologies.
Prior to InduPro, Niyi was a founding member of the Merck Exploratory Science Center and served as the Head of Molecular Discovery group and co-lead of the cellular chemistry team. In this capacity, he led a group working at the interface of chemistry and biology towards creating robust and innovative drug pipelines, delivering novel therapeutic targets across multiple therapeutic areas and developing drug discovery platform technologies. He co-invented light powered protein microenvironment mapping technology for profiling protein-neighborhoods in a high-resolution manner.
Before Merck, Niyi was at Pfizer as a Principal Scientist within the Inflammation & Immunology/Rare Diseases division (medicinal chemistry and chemical biology). In that capacity, he contributed to medicinal chemistry/chemical biology programs and led chemistry efforts across a broad range of target classes, some of which have advanced into the clinical phase.
Niyi was a UNCF/Merck postdoctoral fellow at Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University in the lab of Prof. Matthew Shair. In 2011, he obtained his doctoral degree at Vanderbilt University, under the mentorship of Prof. Craig Lindsley. Niyi holds a B.S. in chemistry from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria and a M.Sc. from the Tennessee State University. Niyi serves on the advisory board of ACS Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and is an Early Career Board member of ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters.
He is a co-founder of the STEM Hub for Industry Networking and Exchange (S.H.I.N.E.) program, a non-profit mentoring program for underrepresented STEM students.