Management Team
Laurence I. Wu, PhD
Founder/Chairman
PhD
in Chemistry, Harvard University
■PhD advisor is Professor E.J. Corey, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1990.
■PhD thesis: Full synthesis of Miroestrol, a natural substance for cell regeneration activity.
■The paper was voted as the best paper of the year by the US CHEMTRACTS magazine.
Drug
development experience:
■P&G Pharmaceutical Chemistry Researcher
■Senior Chemical Scientist at Bristol-Myers Squibb
■Director of New Drug Research Department, Predix Pharmaceuticals, USA
■R&D Director, New Drug Department, Pharma Essentia Co., Ltd
■More than 20 years of experience in new drug development, and more than 50 approved patents
Important
achievement:
■Co-inventor at Bristol-Myers Squibb for the anti-chronic blood cancer drug Sprycel® with sales of 2 billion US dollars in 2017.
■Led and participated in the development of the following clinical trial drugs:
֎ Azimilide (antiarrhythmic agents, PhaseⅢ, P&G )
֎ Brivanib alaninate (drug for liver cancer, PhaseⅢ, Bristo-Myers Squibb)
֎ PG-30379 (antiallergic agents, Phase Ⅱ, P&G )
֎ PRX-03140 (drug for dementia, Phase Ⅱ, Predix)
֎ PG-20229 (anti-inflammatory drug, Phase Ⅰ, P&G )
֎ P1101 (drug for hematological diseases, approved by EU, PharmaEssentia)
Xander Wu, PhD
VP
PhD in Chemistry, Yale
University
■Research content includes: Medical imaging applications of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).
Biotech company
experience:
■Curagen Corporation (NYSE: CRGN, acquired by Celldex Therapeutics)
■Participate in major projects in automated gene sequencing and human genome decoding.
■Create a new generation of DNA analyzer, which has been successfully applied to several cancer cell screening and diagnostic indicators, as well as target treatment targets for anticancer drugs.
Rohm & Haas
(acquired by Dow Chemicals and later by DuPont Chemical), served as the head of
quality control and quality assurance department.
Micron Optics Inc. (acquired
by Luna Innovations), served as sales marketing director for Southeast Asia.
■Successfully expanded the regional business sales by 10 folds during tenure.
■Developed a new customer base during his tenure, one of its customers, Singapore Technologies Electronics, grew to be the company’s top customer.
■Company products are fiber optic components, fiber optic sensing equipment and fiber optic sensors.
■Product applications include medical, aerospace, security, and other fields.
■Medical application include in-vivo mechanical surgical probes(Robotic Surgical Arm), smart beds (Smart Bed monitoring body temperature, heartbeat, and respiration), and optical coherent tomography(OCT).