Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> October 12, 2001

Joseph Mollica – Pharmacopeia Inc (pcop)

JOSEPH A. MOLLICA is the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pharmacopeia, Inc., a Princeton, New Jersey-based company engaged in the field of research to discover low molecular weight drug compounds using combinatorial chemistry and automated high throughput screening. Through its software division, Accelrys, Pharmacopeia provides modeling and simulation software, cheminformatics and bioinformatics to the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. From 1987 to 1993, Dr. Mollica was employed by the DuPont Company and then by the DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Company where, from 1991 to 1993, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer and previously as Vice President, Medical Products for DuPont. At Ciba-Geigy, where he was employed from 1966 to 1986, he served in a variety of positions of increasing responsibility, rising to Senior Vice President of Ciba-Geigy's Pharmaceutical Division. Dr. Mollica is currently on the Boards of Pharmacopeia, Inc., Genencor International Inc., Impath, Inc., and Neurocrine Biosciences. He received his BS from the University of Rhode Island and his MS and PhD from the University of Wisconsin and ScD, h.c. from the University of Rhode Island. Profile
TWST: Can we start out with an update of Pharmacopeia? What's gone on

over the past couple of quarters that investors should focus on?

Dr. Mollica: The most significant events of the past two