Robert L. Hudkins

Robert Hudkins serves as our Chief Technology Officer having joined Tyra in January 2020. He brings over 30 years of drug discovery experience including all aspects of drug design and computational chemistry. Prior to joining Tyra, Bob spent the majority of his career with Cephalon, Inc., and later with Teva Pharmaceuticals where he was a Distinguished Scientist and Senior Research Fellow / Senior Research Director in Medicinal Chemistry responsible for the advancement of numerous clinical candidates in oncology and neuroscience. He has co-authored over 100 publications, and was co-inventor on over 123 published US patents. Bob serves as a Journal Editorial Advisory Board Member for multiple medicinal chemistry journals. He holds a B.S. from Barton College, a M.S. in Organic Chemistry from Old Dominion University, and a Ph.D. in Medical Chemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University.