Dr. Steven Jerome completed his PhD at Columbia University in the Chemistry Department under the supervision of Richard Friesner. While at Columbia, he contributed to tools for molecular docking and protein structure refinement. After Columbia, he joined Schrödinger as a scientific developer working on the Glide team, before transitioning to product management. He has since advanced through several roles at Schrödinger to his current dual role as Executive Director of Hit Discovery, directing the development of a broad portfolio of state-of-the-art computational tools for small molecule hit identification and head of EU+ Application Science, supporting greater adoption of the Schrödinger platform within Europe.