Fireside Chat with Dr John Wang : The Race for COVID-19 Vaccine

Date: May 16, 2020 @ 4:00 pm – @ 5:00 pm
Location: Zoom Conference

Fireside Chat with Dr. John Wang

The Race for COVID-19 Vaccines

US Pacific Time: May 16, 2020, 4:00pm-5:00pm,

China Beijing Time: May 17, 2020, 7:00am-8:00am

•Latest updates on COVID-19 vaccine R&D

•Which vaccine technology likely to win the race?

•When will a COVID-19 vaccine be ready?

•What are the challenges in COVID-19 vaccine development

•Many more…

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Agenda

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4:00pm - 4:05pm Introduction to CABS, Dr. Yang Tian, President of CABS

4:05pm - 5:00pm Fireside Chat with Dr. John Wang: The Race for COVID-19 Vaccine

Speaker

John (Jianxin) Wang, PhD

Dr. John Wang graduated from China Pharmaceutical University and received his PhD in Pharmacology from Mario Negri Institute of Pharmacological Research, Italy and postdoc training at University of Arizona at Tuson, US. In 1988, John joined the Department of Molecular Immunology of the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (CSL), Australia and then its spin-off company "Mimotopes".  John was transferred to the US company Chiron in 1995 and then Novartis in 2006, as associate director of Drug Discovery.

While in US, John joined the International Society for Biomolecular Screening (SBS) In 1996, and served as the Chair for both regional and International Annual Conferences, and later two terms of its Board member and President-elect before the society merged into the Society of Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS). In 1998, Dr. Wang also co-founded the Chinese-American BioPharmaceutical Society (CABS).  

John returned to China and founded ImmuOn Therapeutics in 2012 to focus at research and development of therapeutic vaccines for chronic infection and cancer. In 2018 the cancer vaccine business was spun-off to become IOVaxis Therapeutics. The company currently has two cancer vaccine IND applications waiting for approval by NMPA.

Since 2014, John has been invited by the China Medical Economic News to be the columnist for the column "Immune, Gene and Health" . He has so far published over 200 articles.

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