Keynote Speaker

Bruce D. Roth, PhD.

Senior Vice President, Small Molecule Drug Discovery

Genentech Research and Early Development

Bruce Roth received his BS in Chemistry in 1976 (St. Joseph’s College), his Ph.D. Organic Chemistry in 1981 (Iowa State University) and after a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Rochester, joined Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Research in 1982, where he rose to the position of Vice President, Chemistry.  He is best known as the inventor of Lipitor®, the largest selling drug in the history of the pharmaceutical industry, for which he has received numerous awards, including the 2013 Perkin Medal, the highest award given to industrial chemists in the United States and the 2015 National Academy of Sciences award for Chemistry in Service to Society. Bruce served as Vice President of Chemistry at the Pfizer Global Research and Development, Ann Arbor Laboratories from 2000-2007.  He also served as an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry in the School of Pharmacy of the University of Michigan from 1996-2007. 

In May 2007, Bruce joined Genentech Small Discovery as Senior Director of Discovery Chemistry.  On August 10, 2008 he was named one of the American Chemical Society Heroes in Chemistry for the Discovery and Development of Lipitor®.  In September 2009, he was promoted to Vice President, Discovery Chemistry, Genentech Research and Early Development (gRED) and in January 2015 he was appointed as Senior Vice President, gRED Small Molecule Drug Discovery.

Dr. Roth is the inventor or co-inventor of 54 issued U.S. patents and the author or co-author of 51 manuscripts, 35 published abstracts, 9 book chapters and review articles and has given more than 30 invited lectures. In 2013 he was inducted into the ACS Medicinal Chemistry Division Hall of Fame.

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