Leadership and Management Team
President & CEO
James Zhang MBA
• Entrepreneur and founder of four companies in China and New Zealand
• China Pharmaceutical University
• MBA, Messey University New Zealand
Patrick Yu Ph.D.
CSO
Shengke
- Project leader and Sr. Principal Scientist at Celgene-Abraxis
- Invention of clinical candidate NTW-3729 as hedgehog pathway inhibitor / second generation of soluble GSM
- Ph.D. from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry
- Post-doctoral training at Rutgers College of Pharmacy and TSRI
Charles Liu M.D. Ph.D.
SVP
Pharmacology
- Senior VP, Oncology Pharmacology at Pharmaron & CrownBio / Director at DuPont – Incyte Pharma
- 30+ years industry experience, involved in the R&D of Erlotinib, Ruxolitinib and Kadcyla
- M.D. in Medicine from Tianjin Medical University
- Ph.D, in Cancer Biology / Pharmacology from University of Nebraska Medical Center
Soan Chen Ph.D.
SVP
Med. Chem.
- Chief Scientific Officer, VitNovo, Taiwan
- Senior Director/Director, TorreyPines Therapeutics
- 30+ years experience for industry
- Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Wayne State University
- Post-doctoral training at Stanford University
Xian Shi Ph.D.
VP
Chemistry
- Senior Medchem Director at Binjiang Pharma
- Senior Scientist at Exelixis Pharmaceuticals
- 20+ years industrial experience in drug discovery
- Publish more than 30 papers/patents
- Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from State University of New York
Gorge Chen M.D. Ph.D.
VP
Medical Affair
- Senior Dirctor, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center for 17 years, specialized for clinical trials
- M.D. in Clinical Hematology from Peking Union Medical University
- Post-doctoral training for Tumor immunotherapy for breast cancer and chronic lymphocytic leukemia in McMaster University
Karen Richardson Ph.D.
Senior Director
Clinical Development
- Senior Clinical Project Manager and Clinical Operation Director of Australia in IQVIA, ANZ biotech
- Deputy Director of Project Management in Asia Pacific region at Australian i3 Research
- 20+ years experience for clinical trial
- Ph.D. from University of Edinburgh, UK