Tim Hagen, PhD

Dr. Timothy Hagen has 20 years of expertise as a medicinal chemist in drug discovery in the pharmaceutical industry, as well as 15 years of experience in academic research.

Dr. Hagen is a Full Professor at Northern Illinois University (NIU). Before NIU, he worked in the pharmaceutical industry as a synthetic organic and medicinal chemist for more than 20 years. He worked for Searle, Pharmacia/Pfizer (the same company that underwent multiple mergers), and deCODE. He is the author of over 55 peer-reviewed journal articles and a contributor to several book chapters. He is an inventor with over 100 patents. Several compounds he invented went to clinical trials or are currently in the clinic. He has extensive experience with PDE4 inhibitors.

Dr Hagen received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Illinois State University, his PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the pharmaceutical company Searle.