Nick Paras

Nick Paras is an Adjunct Professor in Neurology at UCSF's School of Medicine. He holds a PhD in organic chemistry from Syracuse University and completed postdoctoral training at Yale. With 17+ years at Bristol-Myers Squibb, he specializes in medicinal chemistry for oncology, cardiovascular disease, and neuroscience.

His research focuses on designing small molecule therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases, leveraging expertise in synthetic chemistry and drug discovery. He developed an HIV-1 maturation inhibitor currently in clinical trials.