Yi Zhang, PhD
VP, Discovery Head
Established R&D center for Adlai Nortye in US; Senior director of antibody discovery;
Senior Team Leader at Eli Lilly, Research scientist at Vaxinnate;
Postdoc Fellow at MIT, MSKCC;
PhD in Biology from Peking University;
Over 20 years experience in biopharmaceutical industry and academia; Led large cross-functional discovery teams to implement state of the art technologies and developed novel strategies to advance cancer immunotherapy from inception to IND filing and First-in-human.
4 Issued US patents. A recipient of Lilly innovator Award, Imclone Extraordinary effort award , Vaxinnate President’s award and Anna Fullar Postdoctoral Fellowship.