Career
He is the Professor for Pharmacoinformatics and Head of the Pharmacoinformatics Group at the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Vienna. He also coordinates the research focus “Computational Life Sciences” of the Faculty of Life Sciences. Ecker is Editor of Molecular Informatics and coordinates the EUROPIN Doctor of Philosophy programme in Pharmacoinformatics.
Currently he is also President of the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry.
Ecker"s research focuses on computational drug design which not only led to the identification of highly active propafenone-type inhibitors of P-glycoprotein, but also paved the way for development of new descriptors and virtual screening approaches for identification of new scaffolds active at P-gp. With the increasing knowledge on the importance of P-gp for ADME, his interest moved towards the prediction of P-gp substrate properties.
