Jesse Gordon-Blake, PhD profile page

Dr. Jesse Gordon-Blake is an independent biotechnology and drug discovery consultant with expertise in medicinal chemistry and neurotherapeutics. He has led efforts in small molecule and peptide therapeutic development, AI-enabled drug discovery and biotech startup formation. Previously, he served as principal scientist at a stealth startup, where he built a combinatorial chemistry platform for high-throughput screening, and as an entrepreneurial fellow at Northwestern University, where he advanced novel peptide therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease and TBI and contributed to startup fundraising. He earned his PhD in medicinal chemistry from the University of Illinois at Chicago, focusing on developing innovative small-molecule enzyme modulators for Alzheimer’s disease.