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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, Phase, P&G )

֎   Brivanib alaninate (drug for liver cancer, Phase, Bristo-Myers Squibb)

֎   PG-30379 (antiallergic agents, Phase , P&G )

֎   PRX-03140 (drug for dementia, Phase , Predix)

֎   PG-20229 (anti-inflammatory drug, Phase , 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).