José G. Napolitano obtained his Ph.D. in chemistry from Universidad de La Laguna (Spain) in 2010, followed by a postdoctoral sojourn at the University of Illinois at Chicago in Guido Pauli’s group. His career in pharmaceutical industry began in 2013, when he joined AbbVie’s discovery organization in Lake County, IL. In late 2019, he joined Genentech’s synthetic molecule pharmaceutical sciences (SMPS) department in South San Francisco, CA, where he currently leads the structure elucidation group (SEG). His research interests include the application of qualitative and quantitative NMR approaches to solve complex structure elucidation problems, as well as the implementation of NMR to advance our understanding of chemical transformations.