Diane Joseph-McCarthy, PhD
Professor of the Practice
Boston University College of Engineering
Biomedical Engineering

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology



Diane Joseph-McCarthy is the Executive Director of the new Bioengineering Technology & Entrepreneurship Center (BTEC) at Boston University. She is a senior life science executive with over 20 years of drug discovery, development, and leadership experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sector. Most recently, she was the Senior Vice President of Discovery & Early Development at EnBiotix, a BU spinout company focused on bioengineering novel antibacterials. Before joining EnBiotix, she was an Associate Director in the Infection iMED at AstraZeneca, where she led an innovative group of scientists as well as a global team in Predictive Science. Prior to that she was at Wyeth where she held positions of increasing responsibility. She has been actively involved in the discovery of several compounds that have reached clinical trials. Dr. Joseph-McCarthy received her BA from BU, her PhD from MIT, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School. She has more than 70 publications/patents and has given numerous invited talks. She also has served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Polio Antiviral Advisory Committee.


Combining AI with Physics-Based Models for the Prediction of Antigen-Antibody and MHC-Peptide Structure and Binding
12/04/2024 - 02/04/2026 (Multi-PI)
PI: Diane Joseph-McCarthy, PhD
Merck, Sharp & Dohme LLC




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  1. Khan O, Kankkunen M, Shaker M, Chow H, Moustakas N, Allegra-Berger S, Lazou M, Vajda S, Joseph-McCarthy D. Toward understanding the drivers of antibody-antigen binding. Biophys J. 2026 Feb 12.View Related Profiles. PMID: 41684099
     
  2. Khan O, Kankkunen M, Shaker M, Chow H, Moustakas N, Allegra-Berger S, Vajda S, Joseph-McCarthy D. Towards Understanding the Drivers of Antibody-Antigen Binding. bioRxiv. 2026 Jan 04.View Related Profiles. PMID: 41509224
     
  3. Lazou M, Tuchscherer F, Vajda S, Joseph-McCarthy D. The Influence of Ligands on AlphaFold3 Prediction of Cryptic Pockets. bioRxiv. 2026 Jan 04.View Related Profiles. PMID: 41502950
     
  4. Yu H, Joseph-McCarthy D, Vajda S. Improving B-cell epitope prediction. Drug Discov Today. 2025 Nov; 30(11):104489.View Related Profiles. PMID: 41043640
     
  5. Bekar-Cesaretli AA, Vats S, Whitty A, Kozakov D, Joseph-McCarthy D, Vajda S. Impact of Protein Conformational Diversity on Structure-Based Prediction of Druggability. J Chem Inf Model. 2025 Sep 08; 65(17):9287-9302.View Related Profiles. PMID: 40843625
     
  6. Khan O, Jones G, Kozakov D, Beglov D, Joseph-McCarthy D, Vajda S. E-FTMap: A Protein Structure Based Pharmacophore Identification Server for Guiding Fragment Expansion. J Mol Biol. 2025 Aug 01; 437(15):168956.View Related Profiles. PMID: 40133782; PMCID: PMC12145266; DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2025.168956;
     
  7. Lazou M, Khan O, Nguyen T, Padhorny D, Kozakov D, Joseph-McCarthy D, Vajda S. Predicting multiple conformations of ligand binding sites in proteins suggests that AlphaFold2 may remember too much. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Nov 26; 121(48):e2412719121.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39565312; PMCID: PMC11621821; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2412719121;
     
  8. Lazou M, Bekar-Cesaretli AA, Vajda S, Joseph-McCarthy D. Identification and Ranking of Binding Sites from Structural Ensembles: Application to SARS-CoV-2. Viruses. 2024 Oct 22; 16(11).View Related Profiles. PMID: 39599762; PMCID: PMC11599001; DOI: 10.3390/v16111647;
     
  9. Lazou M, Kozakov D, Joseph-McCarthy D, Vajda S. Which cryptic sites are feasible drug targets? Drug Discov Today. 2024 Nov; 29(11):104197.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39368697; PMCID: PMC11568903; DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2024.104197;
     
  10. Yang J, Walker KC, Bekar-Cesaretli AA, Hao B, Bhadelia N, Joseph-McCarthy D, Paschalidis IC. Automating biomedical literature review for rapid drug discovery: Leveraging GPT-4 to expedite pandemic response. Int J Med Inform. 2024 Sep; 189:105500.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38815316
     
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Bar chart showing 101 publications over 33 distinct years, with a maximum of 10 publications in 2005 and 2007

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2016 Boston University: Boston University Chemistry Convocation Distinguished Alumni Speaker
2016-2017 Gates Foundation: Grand Challenges Explorations Award, Integrated Systems Biology for Phage/Microbiome Modeling
2015-2017 Massachusetts Life Science Center: Cooperative Research Matching Grant, EBX-001: Eradicating Persistent P. Aeruginosa Infections in CF
2005 Wyeth Research: Wyeth Above and Beyond Award
2004 Wyeth Research: Wyeth Research Team of the Year Award
2004 Wyeth Research: Wyeth Chemical Screening Sciences Publication Award
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