Robert DeVita, MS, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Merck
A Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in the Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Dr DeVita also serves as Director of the Medicinal Chemistry Core of the Drug Discovery Institute (DDI) at Mt Sinai, and is on the SAB of Circumvent, as well as being a co-founder of Attenua, Inc, and advisor for Mitokinin, Inc. Dr. DeVita has over 25 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, including at Merck Research Laboratories as director of medicinal chemistry. His work spans the drug discovery paradigm from target identification through clinical stage development, and the identification of multiple development candidates including two Phase II clinical compounds for CNS and CV targets. Dr. DeVita also has experience in the discovery and development of PET imaging agents and translational biomarkers for CNS targets.