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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

■More than 20 years of experience in new drug development, and more than 100 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 )

 

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).