Allen Hong
Senior Principal Scientist, Synthetic Molecule Process Chemistry at Genentech
- Role
- Senior Principal Scientist at Genentech
- Location
- South San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Allen Hong
Effective people manager / project manager with the ability to work solo or in multi-disciplinary teams• Seasoned and skilled experimental researcher and subject matter expert• Synthetic organic chemist specializing in process chemistry, natural product total synthesis, and reaction methodology development in both academic and industrial settings• Key driver of the synthesis of small molecule drug substance active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for GLP toxicology batches and GMP batches for first-in-human clinical trials• Management of drug substance global supply chain and commercial manufacturing route selection• Author of drug substance regulatory filings in compliance with global health authority requirements• Inventor of new therapeutic molecules and commercial drug manufacturing processes• Author of high-impact original research papers and review articles in peer-reviewed journals • Invited lecturer at major national and international scientific conferences and university seminar series• Collaborator in partnership with academic professors and industrial experts on key scientific problems• Volunteer giving back to secondary and higher education and the communityORCID ID: of Science ResearcherID: R-59••••19Skills: • process chemistry• medicinal chemistry• route scouting and proof of concept testing• reaction optimization and scale-up development• natural product total synthesis (including terpenoids, steroids, and alkaloids)• reaction methodology development, including transitional metal-catalyzed reactions• high-throughput experimentation• retrosynthetic analysis and machine learning/artificial intelligence-assisted design • laboratory safety teaching and course development
Experience
Senior Principal Scientist
Sep 2022 — Present · South San Francisco, CA, US
Synthetic Molecule Process Chemistry
Education
Caltech
Ph.D., Chemistry
2007 — 2012
University of California, Berkeley
B.S., Chemical Biology
2002 — 2006
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