Jon Stokes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences at McMaster University in Canada. He is also co-founder and CSO of Stoked Bio. His lab focuses on the development and implementation of machine learning methods for drug discovery and design.
The lab is currently working on discovering novel antibiotics to overcome drug-resistant bacteria and new molecules to treat an aggressive form of brain cancer called glioblastoma. Jon received his PhD in antimicrobial chemical biology in 2016 from McMaster University. From 2017 to 2021, he was a Banting postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.