Allan Prior

Allan joined NJ Bio’s chemistry team as a Senior Scientist and is now Senior Director of Chemistry. Allan specializes in the design and synthesis of novel linker payloads to support the ADC drug discovery field. He obtained his Ph.D. from Kansas State University under the guidance of Prof. Duy Hua and focused primarily on medicinal chemistry research developing anti-viral protease inhibitors. After his Ph.D., Allan furthered his synthetic chemistry training during post-doctoral fellowships at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa with Prof. Charles De Koning and the University of Hawai’i at Hilo DKICP with Prof. Dianqing Sun performing methodology development and total synthesis of natural products. Allan’s contribution to the scientific literature includes 24 publications and a patent.