Maria Webb is Vice President of Pre-Clinical Research, Biology and Pharmacology Sciences, at Pharmacopeia, Inc. in Princeton, NJ. She received her Ph.D. in 1983 in Physiology from The Pennsylvania State University where she worked on steroid receptor physiology. From 1983 to 1985, she was an NIH fellow in Dr. Gerald Litwack’s lab at Temple University Medical School where she worked on steroid receptor biochemistry. In 1985, she moved to The Department of Pharmacology of the Hershey Medical Center at The Pennsylvania State University where she was a Research Assistant Professor working in steroid receptor regulation of gene transcription. In 1989, she joined Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Cardiovascular Pharmacology department focusing on several drug discovery programs for thromboxane, angiotensin II, endothelin, thrombin and chemokine G-protein coupled receptors. Three of these programs advanced to pre-clinical development. Dr. Webb came to Pharmacopeia in 1996 to help build that company’s drug discovery capabilities and programs. Since joining Pharmacopeia, Dr. Webb has been involved in the identification and development of several clinical candidates.

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