Robert A. Goodnow, Jr. is currently Vice President, Chemistry Innovation at Pharmaron, Inc in Boston, MA. He completed a Ph.D. in bioorganic chemistry at Columbia University, New York, USA, followed by postdoctoral training at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. He has worked at Roche and AstraZeneca, focusing on new lead and target discovery as well as implementing chemistry technologies in support of early drug discovery. He is the editor and author of The Handbook of DNA-Encoded Chemistry, which was published in 2014 by Wiley.