The following are honorable speakers from previous Yao Yuan conferences:
The 11th Yao Yuan Biotech-Pharma Symposium
Date: May 31 – June 1, 2018
Location: Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel, Chicago, USA
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Henry O. Gosebruch Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer, AbbVie |
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Balaji Srinivasan, Ph.D Vice President University of Chicago |
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Scott Brun, MD Vice President, AbbVie & Head of AbbVie Ventures |
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Yuan-Hua Ding, Ph.D Executive Director, Asia Pacific R&D, Pfizer |
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Jose Oberholzer, MD Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, Chief, Division of Transplant, University of Virginia |
The 10th Yao Yuan Biotech-Pharma Symposium
Date: April 29, 2017
Location:University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine 924 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Dr. Dale Boger Richard and Alice Cramer Professor and Chairman of Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute (California Campus) |
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Dr. Thomas J. Hudson Vice President, Head of Oncology Discovery and Early Development, AbbVie, Inc. |
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Dr. Yusuke Nakamura Professor, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Deputy Director, Center for Personalized Therapeutics, The University of Chicago |
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Dr. Y. Lynn Wang Professor, Division of Genomic and Molecular Pathology; Director, Lymphoma Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, The University of Chicago |
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Dr. Zhong-Yin Zhang Head, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Distinguished Professor and Robert C. and Charlotte P. Anderson Chair in Pharmacology, Purdue University |
The 8th Yao Yuan Biotech-pharma Symposium
Date: April 23, 2016
Location: University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Pharmacy Auditorium
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Dr. Samuel Blackman Senior Medical Director, Juno Thereuaptics |
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Dr. Andrew P. Combs Vice President, Incyte Corporation |
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Dr. Michael E. Jung Distinguished Professor, UCLA |
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Dr. Dennis C. Liotta Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor, and Executive Director Emory Institute for Drug Development, Emory University |
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Dr. Andrew Souers Senior Research Fellow & Project Director, AbbVie, Inc. |
The 7th Yao Yuan Biotech-Pharma Symposium
Date: April 18, 2015
Location: University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Pharmacy Auditorium
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Dr. Chuan He John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor and Director of Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago; Investigator of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) |
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Dr. Dr. Neil L. Kelleher Walter and Mary Elizabeth Glass Professor, Northwestern University |
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Dr. Mark Murcko Former CTO of Vertex, Co-inventor of Three Marketed Drugs (Agenerase, Lexiva, Incivek) and Many Drug Candidates |
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Dr. Andrew Myers Amory Houghton Professor, Chem & Chem Biol, Harvard |
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Dr. Edward B. Reilly Sr. Research Fellow & Project Director, AbbVie, Inc. |
Academic-Industry Connections for Drug Discovery
Date: March 8th, 2014
Location: Illinois Institute of Technology
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Dr. Karl Hansen Scientific Director, Amgen |
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Dr. Dale J. Kempf Distinguished Research Fellow & Director, Abbott/AbbVie; Co-inventor of Norvir® and Kaletra® |
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Dr. Sergey A. Kozmin Professor of Chemistry, The University of Chicago |
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Dr. Richard B. Silverman John Evans Professor, Northwestern University; Inventor of Lyrica® |
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Dr. Jian-Ting Zhang Andrew and Peggy Thomson Chair in Hematology/Oncology; Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine |
The 5th Yao Yuan Biotech-Pharma Symposium
Date: May 18, 2013
Location: Illlinos Science & Technology Park, 8045 Lamon Avenue , Skokie, IL60077
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Dr. Wenbin Lin Kenan Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) |
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Dr. Wei-Sheng Huang Associate Director, Ariad |
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Dr. Bradley Morgan Vice President, Cytokinetics |
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Prof. Mark J. Ratain Leon O. Jacobson Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Personalized Therapeutics, the University of Chicago. |
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Dr. John Randolph Associate Research Fellow, AbbVie |
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Dr. Guoxin Zhu Executive Director, Eli Lilly |
The 4th Annual Yaoyuan Biotech/Pharma International Symposium at ChangSha, China
Date: November 10 – 16, 2012
Location: Changsha/Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China
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Prof. Brian S. J. Blagg Ph.D., Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, The University of Kansas; Senior Editor, The Journal of Medicinal Chemistry |
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Dr. Thomas von Geldern Individual Consultant, Former Research Fellow at Abbott Laboratories |
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Dr. Tony Giordano CEO, TheraVasc Pharmaceutical Inc. |
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Prof. Mark Hogarth MD, Distinguished Professor & Director, Burnet Institute, Australia; Senior Principal Research Fellow of the NHMRC |
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Prof. Gregory T. Knipp Director, Indiana Center for Translational Sciences Insti tute, and College of Pharmacy, Purdue University |
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Dr. Giovanni Melillo Medical Director, Oncology at Bristol-Myers Squibb; Former Head of Tumor Hypoxia Laboratory, National Cancer Institute |
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Dr. Peter H. Seeberger Ph.D, Director at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Inter faces, ex-President of the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences |
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Dr. Peter Senter VP, Seattle Genetics |
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Prof. Hiroshi Sugiyama Distinguished Professor, Kyoto University, Japan |
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Prof. Lun-Quan Sun Ph.D, Professor and Head of Center for Molecular Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University |
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Prof. Weihong Tan Ph.D, Professor and Dean, College of Biology, Chemistry & Chemi cal Engineering, Hunan University, P. R. China |
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Prof. Chun-Su Yuan M.D., Ph.D., Cyrus Tang Professor & Director, Tang Center for Herbal Medicine Research, the University of Chicago; Methylnaltrexone inventor |
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Prof. Xiao-kun Zhang Ph.D, Professor and Dean, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Xiamen University, China |
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Prof. Honghao Zhou Academician of Chinese Academia of Engineer; Director, In stitute of Clinical Medicine, Central South University |
The 3rd Annual Chicago Biotech/Pharma Internal Symposium
Date: May 12, 2012
Location: Illinois Science & Technology Park, 8045 Lamon Avenue , Skokie, IL60077
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Dr. Peter Senter VP, Seattle Genetics |
| Dr. Feng Xu Sr. Investigator, Merck Inc. |
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| Dr. Michael Michaelides Sr. Research Fellow & Chemistry Head of Cancer Research, Abbott Laboratories |
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| Dr. Alison Handley Director of Clinical Science, Cardiovascular, Takeda Global Research and Development, Inc. |
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| Dr. Jean Cui Associate Research Fellow, Pfizer |
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| Dr. Ekaterina Pestova Manager R&D, Abbott Molecular |
The 2nd Annual Chicago Biotech/Pharma International Symposium
Date: May 8, 2011
Location: Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel & Convention Center, Schaumburg, IL
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Dr. Stevan Djuric Senior Director, GPRD, Abbott Laboratories |
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Dr. Jeffery Duncan IP Lawyer & Partner, Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione |
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Dr. Bingbing Feng VP Business Development, Shanghai Medicilon, Inc. |
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Dr. Yang-Xin Fu Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Chicago |
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Dr. Charles Huang VP of Global BD, Sundia MediTech Company Ltd |
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Dr. Anning Lin Professor & Director, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Science; Professor, Ben May Department for Cancer Research, University of Chicago |
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Dr. Keqiang Ye Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University |
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Dr. Youssef L. Bennani Vice President Drug Innovation, Vertex Pharmaceuticals |
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Dr. Hualiang Jiang Professor & Deputy Director, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Science; Dean, East China University of Science and Technology, School of Pharmacy |
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Dr. Erik Wong Director of External Alliance, AstraZeneca |
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Feng Sheng Sr. Advisor, Shanghai Pharm Valley Jiaxing International Bio-tech Park; President, StudyManager Inc., China Operation |
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Dr. Jia Tian Professor & Director, Beijing University Health Science Center, Technology Transfer Office |
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Dr. Peng Cho Tang CSO, HEC Pharma Group |
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Dr. Xiaochuan Wang Chairman and CEO, Sundia MediTech Company Ltd |
The 1st Annual Chicago Biotech/Pharma International Symposium
Date: May 9, 2010
Location: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
Note: Was hosted under the organization name of ACBPA.ORG (American-Chinese Biotech Pharmaceutical Association).