EC Election 2019

2020 - present Business Development Manager, TargetMol Chemicals, Wellesley Hills, MA

2018 - 2020 District Sales Manager, MedChemExpress LLC, Monmouth Junction, NJ

2017 - 2017 Sales Manager, Selleck Chemicals, LLC, Houston, TX

2014 - 2016 Vice President/Principal Scientist, Gateway Biotechnology, Inc, Rootstown, OH

2009 - 2013 Associate Researcher, University of California, San Francisco, CA

1999 - 2009 Assistant Researcher, University of California, San Francisco, CA

with biomedical training background both in China and USA
worked in different industries from VC to HighTech
passionate about community based or professinal-affiliated non-profit cause
active in cross border culture and hightech excahnge
personable and open minded

Dr. Xi Fang is a co-founder and CEO of Button US, an investment corporation that focuses on Biotech, MedTech and Digital Health.
Dr. Xi Fang is a founding member of Huami US, which is a cloud-based healthcare services provider with world-leading smart wearable technology. Huami was founded in 2014 and went public on NYSE in early 2018. The revenue reported in 2020 was over 1 billion USD.
Before transitioning to an entrepreneur, Xi Fang had worked for Google for many years.
Xi Fang was a researcher with over 40 publications and 6000 citations. Xi Fang received four best paper awards, and one of his first-author papers has been cited over 3000.

Dr. Guanghui Han‘s research focus is on developing cutting-edge methods and platforms for protein therapeutics characterization with Mass spectrometry.
Dr. Han is currently the Senior Director of Mass Spectrometry Center in San Jose at BGI Americas Corporation. Dr. Han obtained his PhD degree from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. During his PhD study, Dr. Han has developed novel techniques and methods for cancer biomarkers discovery by LC-MS/MS based protein phosphorylation analysis at both large-scale proteome level and individual protein level. Dr. Han received his post-doctoral training at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Dr. Gerald Hart’s group. His research was focused on understanding the role of O-GlcNAcylation in disease, a modification discovered in the Hart lab, and specifically worked on methods for enrichment and detection of the modification in kinases and their roles in the crosstalk between glycosylation and phosphorylation. In 2014, Dr. Han joined Genentech Inc, where his role as a scientific manager was to develop and apply MS based technologies for characterization of therapeutic molecules, including bispecific antibodies, fusion proteins, PEG-Fab conjugates, antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) et al., and especially developed new analytical techniques for interrogating non-covalent protein-ligand interactions, MHC complex, membrane protein complexes and other large molecule complexes. In 2018, Dr. Han helped found the Mass Spectrometry Center in San Jose at BGI Americas Corporation to provide high quality Mass Spec service for customers with a special focus on developing cutting-edge methods and platforms for protein therapeutics characterization with state-of-the-art Mass Spectrometers.
Dr. Guanghui Han has published more than 40 papers in a variety of international journals, including Nature, Molecular cell, Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, Analytical Chemistry, mAbs, et al, with over 3,000 citations.

4 th year CABS

Dr. Weijie Lan received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He completed postdoctoral training with Dr. Don Cleveland at UCSD/Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. Moving to the industry, Weijie joined the iPSC engineering team of Fate Therapeutics. Then he was recruited to Abbvie, joining its founding team of the Oncolytic Virus and CAR-T Cell Therapy unit. Thereafter Weijie was recruited to Walking Fish Therapeutics where he serves as Senior Director of Cell Engineering.
Weijie is a co-inventor of Fate Therapeutics’ foundational iPSC engineering patent. He has contributed to the IND-enabling preclinical development of multiple cell therapy programs. While in academic research, Weijie co-authored scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals including Cell, Science, and Nature Genetics.

I received my BS of Biochemistry in Purdue University in 2016 and MPH of Biostatistics in NYU in 2018. I was a biostatistician in Johnson & Johnson department of epidemiology real-world data. Now I worked as an executive search consultant in an HR consulting firm.

Danielle Liu

Based in San Francisco Bay Area, Danielle Liu is a well-rounded Human Resources Advisor and business leader with global and cross-function, multi-sector experiences. A Lifetime learner with strong curiosity and entrepreneur spirit. Danielle also provides executive assessment & leadership development consulting, and accelerated integration support to executives transitioning to new roles.

Danielle has more than 20 years of experience in transnational human resource management, helping industries such as internet finance, healthcare, banking, retail and supply chain. She has special expertise in building and leading top-performing teams, turning around troubled organizations, and establishing HR functions from scratch, as well as establishing HR global platform, particular leading the development and business landing of Chinese companies in North America, and helping them become public.

In recent years, Danielle was the Vice President of Human Resources at Vcredit Group, and helped the company successfully get listed in the Hong Kong Stock Market. She was also the former Director of Human Resources in Asia at Home Depot and the Human Resources Director at Deutsche Bank China. Furthermore, she served in Fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies like Eli Lilly and Merck, taking on various leadership roles in Human resources.

Born and raised in China, Danielle graduated from the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) and holds a master's degree in business administration. She speaks fluent Chinese and English. The mother of three children, she is passionate about family, friends, and travel. Danielle also does volunteer work helping new graduated college students for their career development.

“I really believe that leadership is a journey, and my passion is helping leaders unlock their unique potential, build teams, and pilot organizations.”

Lu received her master in Biochemical Engineering from Auburn University in 2013. After working in a few biotech startups, she joined WuXi AppTec in 2017 and now serving as Director of Business Development based in Bay Area.
Lu has been an active member or volunteer in many local bay area communities and events, including CABS, PBSS, NorCal SOT and AAPS Bay Area Group. She has served as secretary and chair elect in AAPS bay area group in the past a few years.

Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, University of Tuebingen, Germany
M.S., Organic Chemistry, Central China Normal University, China
B.S. Chemistry, Central China Normal University, China

Senior Research Scientist , Gilead Sciences
Senior Chemist, AnaSpec
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California at Davis

Awards and professional affiliations:
• Key Contributor Award at Gilead Sciences
• Member of The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS)
• Member of American Chemical Society
• Member of CABS

I am a lab manager in infectious disease department of J&J. I have over 10 years of pharmaceutical experience specializing in infectious disease research. I have been a member and serving CABS since 2019.

MD/BS in Clinical Medicine at China Medical University, China in 1994; PhD in Medical Sciences at Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan in 2002;

After 2.5 years’ postdoctoral training at Stanford University School of Medicine, I have started my industrial career as a research scientist in biotech companies since 2005. I am currently a director of In Vivo Pharmacology at ORIC Pharmaceuticals, a company focusing on discovering, developing, and commercializing innovative therapies that address cancer resistance.
An AACR member for 15+ years;
Boy Scouts of America (2011-2020):
• Wood Badge Award, the highest level of adult Scout leadership program: 2017
• Chair, Fundraising Committee (2015-2019)
Details also at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicadsun/
• Proud Mom of Eagle Scout

Over 20 years of management experience in Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices companies including areas of Research, Manufacturing, Quality Control, and Quality Assurance. Implemented global policies and programs which have resulted in successful regulatory inspections and approvals. I was a founding member or Gilead's Asian Interest Network (GAIN) and as well as a mentor. I am also a mentor with Healthcare Businesswomen Association (HBA).

2015- present, Director, Peptide Chemistry
2011-2015, CS Bio, Team leader
2010 – 2011, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
2006 – 2010, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California at Davis

BS in clinical examination ChongQing Pharmaceutical College

Arcus( Sample Bank)

My name is Michael Xie. I received my Ph.D. in chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis. After two years of postdoctoral training, I started my career in pharmaceutical industry, most recently at Novartis and Teledyne ISCO (Pharmaceutical instrumentation). With a keen interest in biotech community, I started to volunteer about 13 years ago. Prior to join CABS four years ago, I had been with Sino-American Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Professional Association (SABPA) in San Diego. I volunteered hours in my spare time in social events and photography groups, helping to organize numerus successful events and making contributions to newsletters with event photos. After I moved to Bay Area, one of the largest biotech professional organizations that caught my attention is CABS. I have been doing volunteer jobs since then as an EC member in Public Relation & Communication Committee and very recently as a co-chair in Social Life Committee (SLC), involving extensively in successful activities such as taking event photos, recruiting speakers and fund raising for CABS’s Annual BioPacific Conference, organizing Chinese New Year Party, annual dragon boat race, summer BBQ events and assisting the organization of virtual activities during pandemic, etc. I was deeply pleased and honored to receive the outstanding service award in 2018.

I am applying and willing to continue to serve as an EC member for the upcoming term. Organizing activities is kind of challenging during pandemic. With my volunteering experience, enthusiasm and dedication, working together with other volunteers, I am sure we can make CABS a leading, greater and most valuable professional organization in biotech community in Bay Area.

Yu Yang

Master of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

CEO of Hanhai Silicon Valley Center, responsible for the management and operation of Hanhai Life Science Park and Hanhai Technology Science Park

Expert of technology incubator operation, invested in or incubated life science unicorns, life science incubator, and life science funds.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiang-yi-1279568/

I am currently working at Grail as an associate scientist. I got my Master degree in Biological Science and have been working in life science area for more than 20 years. Previously, I worked at Stanford University and Illumina.

Graduated from Shanghai Medical School ( Fudan University). Had more than 20 years' working experience in earlier drug discovery. Strong initiation and problem-solving skill. I had worked at bio/pharmaceutical companies such as Genentech, Exelixis. Currently, I am working at Sutro Biopharma as a scientist for 7 years. I have won many awards related to my professional jobs such as 2011 Spot Award to Recognize Excellent Performance at Sea Lane Biotechnologies; Exelixis Excellence Award for year 2007, 2008 and 2009. When serving at CABS, I won 2019 Extraordinary Leadership Award and 2014 Excellence Award.

Dr. Huijun Zhou received her PhD in molecular biology and genetics from Cornell University and completed her post-doctoral medical genetics training at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is a clinical molecular geneticist and board-certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics.
Huijun is an experienced biotech entrepreneur and executive. Previously she worked as a research scientist and executive at Incyte Pharmaceuticals and DNA Direct in Silicon Valley. She was the founder and CEO of iDNA Inc, a precision medicine company. iDNA Inc. was named as one of the fastest growing technology companies in China by Deloitte and was acquired by a public company. Huijun has cofounded and advised several biotech startups in Silicon Valley and mentored many young first-time entrepreneurs.

Ning (Jack) Zhu joined Analytical Biosciences Company in April 2021 and is currently the head of business development and marketing. In this role, he represents the company in outbound business development activities and is in charge of promotion the company within industry. Before this role, Jack Zhu worked for WuXi AppTec as commercial operations associate director from July 2016 to March 2021, and for DuPont Company as key account manager from Oct 2008 to Oct 2013.
Jack Zhu obtained MBA degree from Emory University in 2016 with concentration on general management, and master and bachelor degree with major of Electrical Engineering.
Jack Zhu is China National 2nd level basketball player and during spare time, he loves to play classical guitar and go hiking.