Professional Positions

2019 - present Chief Drug Hunter & President, Maestro Therapeutics
2014 - 2019 Distinguished Scientist, Discovery Chemistry Modalities, and Head, Peptide Drug Hunter Network, Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Company, Boston MA
2007 - 2013 Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice-President, Stapled Peptide Drug Discovery, Aileron Therapeutics, Cambridge MA
2003 - 2006 Senior Vice-President, Drug Discovery; and Head, Kinase Inhibitor Chemistry, Ariad Pharmaceuticals, acquired by Takeda, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Previous scientific and management positions at The Upjohn Company, Parke-Davis/Warner Lambert and Pfizer

Education

1981 Doctorate of Philosophy with Distinction, Organic Chemistry, University of Arizona
1976 Bachelor of Science, Cum Laude, Chemistry, Minnesota State University at Moorhead

APS Service

2010 - present Editorial Board, Peptide Science
2003 Co-chair, Eighteenth American Peptide Symposium, Boston MA
1999 - 2001 President
1995 - 2001 Council Member
1993 - present Council Nominating Committee, DuVigneaud Award Nominating Committee, Merrifield Award Nominating Committee, Publications Committee, Travel Awards Committee, Young Investigators Award Committee

Awards & Honors

2015 Professional Achievement Award, University of Arizona Alumni Association & College of Science
2006 Distinguished Alumni Award, Minnesota State University–Moorhead Alumni Foundation
1999 Milestone Award for Signal Transduction Drug Discovery Achievement, Ariad Pharmaceuticals
2001 Milestone Award for Signal Transduction Drug Discovery Achievement, Ariad Pharmaceuticals
1994 President's Distinguished Scientist Lecture Honorarium, Parke-Davis/Warner-Lambert Company
1990 Kagan Drug Discovery Award for Lead Finding in Pharmaceutical Research, The Upjohn Company
1988 DuVigneaud Award for Outstanding Achievement in Peptide Research, American Peptide Society

Tomi K. Sawyer

Chief Drug Hunter & President
Maestro Therapeutics