Co-founder & CEO
Dr. Sean Li
- 30+ yrs experience in peptide chemistry and biology
- 10 yrs CRO experience in peptide technology and services. Former Exec. Director of Peptide Technology and Services in WuXi AppTec
- Ph.D. in Chemistry from Peking University; Postdoc at Purdue, University of Maryland and Osaka University
Senior Vice President Drug Discovery
Dr. Henry Liu
- 25+ yrs of industrial research and management experience in drug screening, pharmacology from early discovery to preclinical late stage
- Former Director of Neurorscience in Chempartner; V.P. of Biology in PharmaCore Labs; Scientist at Icagen Inc. & Neuromed.
- M.D. in Clinical Medicine/Cardiac Surgery from Peking University
Executive Director, In Vitro Biology
Dr. Shiu-Feng Tung
- 20+ yrs of industrial and academic research experience in high throughput screening, assay development and receptor pharmacology
- Former Senior Dzirector of R&D at Tripartite Therapeutics; Supervisor of Taipai Facility at Arena Pharmaceuticals; Director of High Throughput Screening and Receptor Pharmacology at TaiGen Biotechnology; Principal Investigator of GPCR Project at Development Center for Biotechnology
- Ph.D. in Life Science from Institute of Life Science, Academia Sinica/National Health Research Institute/National Defense Medical Center Joint Program
Executive Director, R&D Strategy
Dr. Wenge Liu
- 20+ yrs of industrial and academic research experience in DMPK, drug delivery life cycle management
- Former V.P. of Hainan R&D Center at Simcere Pharma; Senior Director of DPMK at Senior Director of DMPK Suzhou Wuxi AppTech; Research Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
- M.D. in Medicine from Tianjin Medical University and PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Kumamoto University
Senior Director, Medicinal Chemistry
Dr. Yilong Li
- 10+ years of peptide drug development experience, team leading experience from target/indication selection to PCC/IND
- Former Senzior Principal Scientist at Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co.,Senior Scientist at Creative Peptides, Development Scientist PolyPeptide Group
- PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences at USC
Associate Director, AI Drug Discovery
Dr. Hong Wang
- 14+ yrs of experience in structural biology, X-ray crystallography, single- particle cryo-EM, molecular docking, and dynamic simulation
- Former Postdoctoral Scientist at Boston University Medical Campus
- Ph.D. in Biophysics from the Institute of Biophysics of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Director & Head of Global Business Development
Rumit Maini, Ph.D.
- Over 9 years of experience in peptide drug discovery and platform technologies
- Former Associate Principal Scientist at Merck & Co. (MSD), New Jersey
- PhD in Chemistry from Arizona State University and JSPS postdoctoral fellow at University of Tokyo