George Samaan

George is an organic medicinal chemist with expertise in nucleic acid and nucleoside analogues chemistry. In 2013, he obtained a pharmacy degree from Cairo University in Egypt. His passion for drug discovery led him to pursue medicinal chemistry research. In his Ph.D. at the University of California San Diego and San Diego State University, he focused on the design and synthesis of nucleoside analogues targeting a specific bacterial enzyme. He also developed one of the brightest fluorescent nucleoside analogues to be used as tools to study the structures and functions of nucleic acids. In January 2022, George joined Creyon Bio to develop novel therapeutic oligonucleotides against difficult-to-drug biomolecular targets.