Senior Research Scientist
AstraZeneca
Wankyu works at AstraZeneca as a Senior Research Scientist in Discovery Sciences doing targeted proteomics work on degrader and molecular glue projects. Prior to AstraZeneca, he worked at Dewpoint Therapeutics performing target deconvolution using chemoproteomics approaches on chemical matter from phenotypic screens. Wankyu performed his postdoctoral work at Pfizer studying activity based probes for protein tyrosine phosphatases as well as understanding covalent degrader promiscuity. His PhD work was completed in the lab of JoAnne Stubbe studying the mechanism of proton-coupled electron transfer for the enzyme ribonucleotide reductase.