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以下将是在金种子大赛系列培训会上出席的演讲嘉宾和专题讨论嘉宾

 

演讲嘉宾和专题讨论嘉宾:

Ronghui Gao, MD, MBA - Business Development Director, BioBay

Following medical training, Ronghui worked as a medical doctor for seven years in screening and managing infectious diseases and vaccination programs in China. He then joined Nestle, worked in the sales & marketing team in the nutritional department as a regional manager in Shanghai. He relocated to the UK where he completed his MBA in Manchester Business School and worked in a UK based pharmaceutical marketing consultancy company, Pharma Marketing Academy, and InforMed Direct, as a consultant. Ronghui worked closely with a number of major pharmaceutical companies in Europe, namely AstraZeneca, GSK, Novartis, in areas of strategic marketing planning, new product launch, market research as well as KOL management for major brands. Rong Hui then relocated back to Shanghai and set up a joint marketing consulting firm in the healthcare market in 2005. His major clients include Astrazeneca, J&J and Sanofi-Aventis. Rong Hui joined BioBay in 2008. His current role is Business Development Director. He works closely with a wide range of life-science enterprises, VCs and bio-clusters worldwide and helps them set up their operations in China and facilitate their business by seeking fund, business partners as well as government support. Ronghui’s specific area of interests include strategic marketing, marketing planning, KOL management, company start-up, government communication and business development in the healthcare industry.

Frank Grams, PhD - Global Business Development Director, Roche Global Pharma Partnering

Frank has been instrumental in setting up the Shanghai office of Roche Pharma Partnering. The office is strengthening Roche’s presence in the region and is mainly responsible for partnering activities in Korea, Singapore and Greater China including Taiwan and Hong Kong. Prior to taking up this post, from 2006 Frank was Global Head, Drug Delivery Partnering, responsible for both the strategic and life-cycle management activities related to drug delivery partnering. Frank was a Global Alliance Director from 2002, managing pivotal research alliances such as Chugai, Evotec, SGX, Syrrx and Biotie. He has been involved in about 100 transactions including product and technology deals, in- and out-licensing opportunities and also an acquisition. Frank joined the Roche Pharma Partnering team as Head of Opportunity Surveillance in July 2001, having previously worked in various research functions in Roche and at Boehringer Mannheim GmbH. Frank has a degree in chemistry from the University of Heidelberg and a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Munich within the group of Nobel laureate Robert Huber (Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry at Martinsried). His more than 40 papers have been published in well known peer-reviewed journals such as Nature Structural Biology, Journal of Molecular Biology etc. and have been cited about a thousand times. Five of them have been cited even more than a hundred times. He is also the co-author on 19 patents and patent applications.

Jason (Gang) Jin, MD, PhD - CEO, ShanghaiBio Corporation

Dr. Jason (Gang) Jin is the President & CEO of ShanghaiBio Corporation (SBC for CRO), and Co-Founder & Executive VP of Global Business of Shanghai Biochip Co. Ltd (SBC), a leading biotech in China with lab operations at Shanghai and global business office at New Jersey in U.S. Dr. Jin is also an adjunct professor at the Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences (SIBS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and School of Pharmacy, Fudan University. Dr. Jin has extensive scientific and business development experience in drug discovery and development. He has successfully developed and managed a number of R&D collaborative projects in biology discovery, preclinical research, and clinical trials with top global pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Dr. Jin has held the former positions of Director of Genomics Lab at Purdue Pharma (USA), Director of Functional Genomics at Salk Institute (USA), Founder Director of National Engineering Center for Biochip at Shanghai (China), and radiologist at Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital (China). He received Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Fellow in biology from University of California, San Diego (USA), and medical degree from School of Medicine, Fudan University (Shanghai Medical University, China).

Lan Kang, MBA - Client Partner, Korn/Ferry (Shanghai) Human Capital Consulting Co., Ltd.

Ms. Lan Kang is a Client Partner at Korn/Ferry International’s Greater China Office. She is specializing in senior executive search in Healthcare/ Life Science market in China. Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Kang spent over 4 years working on management consulting at McKinsey & Company’s Greater China office and was a core member of its Healthcare Practice. She assisted leading pharmaceutical, medical devices and other Healthcare related multinational and local companies in strategy development, operation improvement, and change management projects. Prior to that, Ms. Kang specialized in Cancer Research in the U.S. for five years, first as a researcher in the Surgery Department at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in NYC, then as a Research Scientist working on drug discovery at Wyeth, Pearl River, NY. Ms. Kang is not only well-connected in the Life Science field in China, but also in close contact with the Chinese Pharmaceutical / Biotech professional communities in the US. She is also a member of BayHelix group, a non-profit organization of leaders of Chinese origin in the global life sciences and healthcare community. Born in Nanjing, Ms. Kang obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Biological Science and Technology from Zhejiang University in China, and a Master’s degree in Biochemistry from Tulane University in the U.S. She also received an MBA in the Healthcare Program with Honors from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Esther H. Lim, JD - Founding Managing Partner, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, Shanghai Office

Esther H. Lim is the founding managing partner of the Shanghai office of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP. She has a broad patent practice, including litigation, prosecution, licensing, opinions, due diligence investigations, and portfolio management. She has represented many international companies from Asia, Europe, and the U.S. in complex cases. Ms. Lim frequently lectures and writes internationally on issues relating to procurement and enforcement of U.S. intellectual property rights. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Last Month at the Federal Circuit, Finnegan’s monthly newsletter distributed to subscribers worldwide. Ms. Lim taught advanced patent law and public policy courses as an adjunct professor at Howard University School of Law in the U.S. for six years. Beginning in 2010, she will teach a new IP course to postgraduate law students at Renmin University School of Law in China. Ms. Lim served on the Board of Governors of the D.C. Bar with over 85,000 members and on the Board of Governors for the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) representing the interests of over 40,000 attorneys. She is Past President of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of the Greater Washington D.C. Area. In 2005, she received NAPABA’s “Best Lawyers Under 40” award. Ms. Lim is a 2007 recipient of the Burton Award for Legal Achievement, a national award for legal writing. Ms. Lim served as a law clerk to the Honorable Randall R. Rader of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Greg B. Scott - President and Founder, ChinaBio® LLC

Mr. Scott has helped launch over thirty life science startups in the U.S. and China as a founder, investor and advisor. He founded the ChinaBio® LLC in January 2007 to help fund and mentor early stage life science companies in China, and provide consulting and research services to pharma and biotech companies with business interests in China. Mr. Scott is also the president and co-founder of Life Science Angels, an angel investment group that has funded 30 biotechnology and medical device companies since 2005, and executive editor of ChinaBio® Today. He is also a strategic adviser to ChinaSF, an initiative of the Mayor of San Francisco to connect China and San Francisco business interests. He previously held senior executive positions at Price Waterhouse, Capgemini and MCI, and was co-founder of a 200-person consulting firm. Mr. Scott attended University of Missouri, where he studied mathematics, microbiology and computer science.

Claire W. Sha, MD, MBA - Partner, Capital First Partners

Foreseeing the changes ahead in China’s healthcare sector, especially as reform initiatives potentially disrupt the status quo ad fundamentally change competitive dynamics, Oct 2009, Claire started her venture to dedicate in help life science company to expand and grow in joint with her role at DFJ DragonFund to lead the healthcare and life sciences investment practice. Currently Claire is on the advisory boards for DFJ DragonFund's portfolio companies VTI and Viewhigh. Prior to joining DFJ Dragon, Claire was a senior strategic consultant for Medtronic Great China where she focused on corporate strategy and implementation, and therapy market development in partnership with the Diabetes and Neurology business divisions. Claire also started her own company, TELCA Networks, a Canadian VOIP service provider offering competitive services in terms of cost and availability. Previously Claire worked at Schering Pharmaceutical as a Product Manager where she was instrumental in launching Levovist. As a Product Manager at Xi'an Janssen Pharmaceutical she was responsible for improving the brand and revenue of Daktarin through improved marketing advertising on user education. Claire was trained as a medical doctor at Xian Medical University, and worked as a gynecologist at JST hospital in Beijing. Claire has a Bachelor of Science in clinical medicine from Xian Jiao Tong University and an MBA, and Biotech certificate from Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Xiaochuan Wang, PhD - Chairman and CEO, Sundia MediTech Co., Ltd.

Dr. Wang received her PhD degree from the University of Chicago in 1989, specialized in molecular structure design of new drugs. After her PhD training, she worked for 3 biotech companies in USA on R&D research and program management. She has 20 years experience in drug discovery and development for 14 different target, and successfully applied computer aided drug design, medicinal chemistry, compound library design and screening, and ADME analysis. She led teams of medicinal chemists, biologists, and pharmacologist to go through the whole process of drug discovery from 0 to clinical stages. Dr. Wang founded Sundia MediTech Company in Shanghai in 2004, and has led Sundia to grow into a leading Chinese CRO company, especially in new drug discovery CRO services. Sundia was selected by the top VC investors as one of the “Most Valuable Companies for Investment in China” in 2007 and 2008, and was honored in Deloitte High Tech High Growth Companies Top 50 in China, and Top 500 in Asia Pacific.

Stella Xu, PhD - Executive Director, Roche Global Pharma Partnering

Dr. Stella Xu is a Executive Director with Roche Global Pharma Partnering. Her major responsibilities include searching potential licensing opportunities (products / technologies), and supporting transaction discussions & alliance management with Asian partners. Prior to her current position, Stella had held multiple global positions in Roche Pharma Partnering and led more than 30 product-focused due diligence projects and alliances such as Toyama, Japan Tobacco, and Maxygen. Stella joined Roche from McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm that provides strategic advices to the top management of global business leaders. At McKinsey, she led consulting engagements with biopharmaceutical clients in areas ranging from R&D strategy, marketing & sales, to corporate development and M&A activities. Prior to McKinsey, Stella was a research scientist with Isis Pharmaceuticals. Stella received her BS in Biophysics from Peking University; her PhD in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology from Northwestern University.

Yanning Yi, MBA - Vice President, The Balloch Group

Yanning Yi joined The Balloch Group in 2007 and is focused on the firm's investment banking practices in healthcare sector. Mr. Yi has worked with the healthcare team of CIBC World Markets originating IPO transactions in US. He has extensive experience on private equity deals for CRO, specialty pharma, drug discovery, and medical device companies, including KPCB’s most recent $15 million investment in Genscript. Prior to joining TBG, Mr. Yi worked at CIBC in Toronto where he focused on credit and investment portfolio risk management. Prior to that, Mr. Yi spent seven years with China's largest policy bank, the China Development Bank, where he completed over $3 billion debt transactions in power, mining, manufacturing, and infrastructure industries. Mr. Yi received his MBA from the University of Western Ontario, Canada and his BA in Economics from the China Institute of Finance and Banking.

Shengfeng Li, PhD - CEO, Sinoasis Pharmaceuticals, Ltd.

 

Dr. Shengfeng Li has over 14 years of experience in biotechnology industry. He is currently an interim CEO of Sinoasis Pharma, Ltd. (Guangzhou, China), a leading biotech in China focusing on the development of treatment for coronary heart diseases, cancers, and other life threatening conditions. Previously, he was a co-founder and founding Chief Scientific Officer of Abmaxis, Inc., California (acquired by Merck). While at Abmaxis, he pioneered developing a novel genetic system for human antibody screening and selection. His team isolated many fully human antibodies with high affinity and specificity, including antibodies against human cellular receptor proteins involved in cancers. Prior to co-founding Abmaxis, he was employed at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, (now Takeda, US). Dr. Li received his PhD in Microbiology from the University of Georgia in 1991, and afterwards, he worked as a Donaghue Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Li was responsible for the identification of 14-3-3 family of proteins as Raf kinase signaling regulatory molecules. Dr. Li is an author on multiple publications and inventor on several patents in the areas of target identification, drug discovery, and antibody engineering.

Rajesh Parekh, PhD - Director, Head of Asia Healthcare Practice, McKinsey & Company 

Dr. Rajesh (Raj) Parekh, a Director in the Shanghai Office of McKinsey & Company is the leader of McKinsey’s Asia healthcare practice. Since moving to Shanghai in 2005, he has focused his efforts primarily on serving pharmaceutical and medical device clients across Asia on growth strategy, R&D strategy, M&A, and business unit strategy related issues. Some of his recent experiences in include:

• Help a leading global pharmaceutical company develop strategy and plans for significant expansion of clinical development activities in Asia
• Helped a global top 3 Pharmaceutical company develop perspective on healthcare provider and financing system evolution in China, and implement innovative financing related ideas to turbo charge growth
• Developed a growth strategy for a global hospital equipment company across China/Korea/India, including assessment of R&D offshoring opportunity and strategy for partnerships with hospitals
• Helped define the 5-year China growth strategy for a global leader in medical devices – with particular focus on expansion of product portfolio and physician education initiatives 
Dr. Parekh holds a doctorate in chemical engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with focus on biochemical engineering (research thesis on production of biopharmaceuticals in genetically engineered yeast) and a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from University of California at San Diego.  

 Marc Schueler, MD, PhD, MBA - Director Venturing, DSM

Dr. Schueler has been active in Venture Capital for more than 10 years investing in more than 40 companies and VC funds worldwide generating an overall IRR of 26%. He was a partner in 4 VC funds with a combined raised capital of more than US$ 500 million and is since 2009 located in Beijing to set-up a new Investment Vehicle for China for the Dutch Life & Material Sciences Company DSM, whose global Venture Capital program he had build up in the last 6 years. Previously he held Senior Executive Positions at Procter& Gamble and McKinsey in Europe and the USA. He is a MD graduate and qualified Eye Surgeon from the University of Heidelberg and holds a PhD from the University of Freiburg in immunology and internal medicine as well as a MBA from the University of Bradford, UK, with a specialisation in Finance.

Zoe Wang, PhD, JD - Partner, Perkins Coie LLP

Zoe Wang focuses her practice on patent infringement and validity opinions, patent prosecution, freedom-to-operate analyses, patentability analyses, technology transfers and licensing. Her work involves technologies in the fields of life sciences, nanotechnologies, data processing, and devices. She also has experience advising clients in public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities, mergers and acquisitions, counseling companies on general corporate matters, and advising clients with respect to the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. She received her JD from Columbia University School of Law in 1999 and her PhD in cell biology and biophysics from Duke University in 1996.

Stephen Lam, PhD, MBA – Senior Manager, Life Science/ Biotech, Marketing and Admission, HKSTP

 

Stephen Lam, PhD, MBA joined the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) in November 2006 and is currently a Senior Manager, with the responsibility to develop the Life Sciences and Biotechnology cluster. He brings to the organization over two decades of research, management, and business development experience in the biotechnology industry. Prior to joining HKSTP, Dr. Lam served roles of increasing impact at several multi-national corporations including CIBA-Geigy, Novartis, Syngenta, and Pioneer (a DuPont Company). He also served as founder and Chief Operating Officer of Aryzun Pharmaceuticals, an early-stage drug deve lopment company focused on infectious diseases and oncology. He earned his B.A. at the University of Oregon, his MBA at Duke University, and his Ph.D. at the University of Utah. Dr. Lam is an inventor on 16 issued US patents and authored over two dozen scientific publications.

Managing Director, OrbiMed Asia

Dr. Jonathan Wang is a Senior Managing Director, at OrbiMed Asia. He is a general partner at OrbiMed’s Asia-focused VC fund. Previously, he was General Manager at Burrill Greater China Group and worked for WI Harper Group and Walden International, two pioneers in the Asia-related VC industry. At WI Harper, Dr. Wang was a Managing Director, overseeing the firm’s life sciences activities worldwide. There he co-founded and incubated Bridge Laboratories. Dr. Wang is a Board Director at ForteBio, Inc. He is also co-founder and former Chairman of The BayHelix Group, an organization of Chinese life sciences business leaders. He holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Neurobiology from Columbia University, where he obtained scientific training under the supervision of Dr. Eric Kandel, a Nobel Laureate. Dr. Wang also earned an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Albert Yu, PhD - Chariman & CEO, Hai Kang Life Corporation Ltd.

Dr. Yu is a renowned neuroscientist and bio-entrepreneur. Educated in North America, Professor Yu is the Vice-Director of the Neuroscience Research Institute, Professor of the Department of Neurobiology and also a Professor at the Infectious Disease Center at Peking University. His broad cross-cultural experience base and active involvement in both the academic and business environment has led to the strategic vision behind the success of the HK Life team. Also, with a global network and an expanding base of established contacts in China, Prof. Yu has been an important facilitator of dialogue regarding the development of biotechnology in Asia. After receiving his BSc, MSc and PhD from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, Prof. Yu moved to the University of California at San Francisco and subsequently spent four years at Stanford University and was honored with the status of Visiting Associate Professor. Upon returning to Hong Kong, he joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as a faculty member. Prof. Yu has also spent time as a guest professor at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, visiting professor at The First Military Medical University and visiting investigator at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Over his academic and research career, Prof. Yu has published 3 books and over 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles and conference papers. He is also the co-inventor of numerous technologies with 17 patents granted and others pending.

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