Webster Santos is Vice President and Head of Medicinal Chemistry at S1P Therapeutics. He received his BS and PhD from the University of Virginia and trained at Harvard University as a Ruth Kirschtein NIH fellow. He is currently a Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Virginia Tech Center for Drug discovery. He has published over 120 papers, an inventor of over 20 issued and pending patents, and a co-founder of three biotech startup companies. He serves as a standing member of SBCB/CBP NIH study section and on the editorial board of Medicinal Research Reviews, Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry and Molecules. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, received the Fralin-ICTAS Innovators award, American Chemical Society Young Investigator Award, Chemical Communications and Molecular Biosystems Emerging Investigator, and named as the Blackwood Junior Faculty Fellow of Life Sciences and A.C. Lilly Faculty Fellow of Drug Discovery at Virginia Tech. Dr. Santos is an expert medicinal chemist who has extensive experience in developing novel drugs targeting proteins in the sphingosine-1-phosphate pathway.