Eric Schwartz joined the Resolvyx management team as Senior Director for Medicinal Chemistry in February 2006. He started his medicinal chemistry career at Eisai Research Institute and then held positions as Director of Medicinal Chemistry at UCB Pharma's drug discovery group in Cambridge, MA and as Associate Director in Chemistry at Biogen Idec. He received his Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and followed this with a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh.