Dr. Gagnon is a Sr. Scientist in the Engineering and Material Sciences department at Vertex Pharmacetuicals Inc. He has 5 years of experience working in pharmaceutical development, serving primarily as a small molecule crystallographer. He earned his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from Texas A&M University and worked as a beamline scientist at the Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab before starting at Vertex.

Dr. Gagnon’s focus is in the expansion of useful information coming from molecular crystal structures. His interests lie in determining structures under non-ambient conditions (i.e. variable temperature, pressure, or environment) to understand the response of structures to known stimuli.

Recently, Dr. Gagnon has invested his time in understanding structure property relationships and striving to correlate particle properties to bulk properties for risk analysis. He currently serves as a co-lead for Vertex’s computational material sciences efforts.