Sean Ekins areas of interest are in vitro and computational ADME/Tox, Systems Biology, informatics and computer-aided drug discovery. Sean has joined the advisory board to promote the use of ChemSpider to pharmacologists, using the tool to inform SAR and drug discovery research. He has worked as a senior scientist at Pfizer, Lilly Research Laboratories, Concurrent Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and GeneGo. He is currently Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland and Senior Vice President of Computational Biology at Arnold Consultancy and Technology LLC and Senior Consultant at Collaborations in Chemistry Inc. He is also on the scientific advisory board for Emiliem Inc. and the advisory board for Chemical Informatics at Indiana University.