Clarke Discovery Bridge, LLC

First as a chemist. Then bridging science and IT.

Independent consulting from someone who spent over two decades inside a major pharmaceutical company's drug discovery engine.

Clarke Discovery Bridge is the solo practice of Christian Clarke — 19 years as a medicinal chemist and 3 years as a Business Relationship Manager connecting Research IT with the scientists it serves. Two independent services, one career that stands behind both.

Workstream One

Medicinal Chemistry Consulting

Fractional and project-based medicinal chemistry for small-molecule drug discovery — from hit assessment through candidate selection.

  • Co-inventor on issued patents in small-molecule programs
  • Formal hit assessments and lead optimization across multiple programs
  • One program carried personally from hit assessment to a clinical candidate
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Workstream Two

Science–IT Partnership Consulting

Fractional scientific-advisor support for consulting firms running translational projects — the person who speaks to both the engineers and the client's scientists.

  • Translation between scientific need and IT delivery
  • Experience inside annual IT business planning and budgeting
  • The communication conduit between IT teams and research leadership
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The through-line

No shared service. One shared foundation.

These two services don't overlap. What connects them is a single career spent inside the drug discovery organization of a major pharmaceutical company — long enough to have designed molecules that reached the clinic, and long enough to have sat between the scientists and the IT groups building their tools.

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