Gang Liu
Senior Program Officer at Gates Foundation
- Role
- Senior Program Officer at Gates Foundation
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Gang Liu
Specialties:• Delivery of 8 clinical development candidates• Extensive experience in all stages of drug discovery and preclinical development: target selection, lead generation, lead optimization, candidate identification, exploratory toxicology, pre-clinical development• Structure-based drug design, SAR-by-NMR, fragment-based drug design• Project Leadership• Management of medicinal chemistry department operations including project resourcing, recruiting, performance evaluation.• Supervisor & mentor to PhD/MS/BS scientists• Small molecule patent applications• Management of CROs in China & India• Professional development trainings• > 70 publications & patents
Experience
Senior Program Officer
Jan 2017 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Shape and execute the drug discovery program that address global health needs. Manage the foundation’s investment in the Global Health Drug Discovery Institute (GHDDI) in Beijing, China, a partnership with Beijing Municipal Government and Tsinghua University. Direct the Malaria Drug Accelerator (MalDA), an innovative drug discovery platform through collaboration across 15 labs, delivering novel antimalarial lead compounds.
Education
Rice University
Ph.D., Organic Synthetic Chemistry
1991 — 1995
Peking University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Applied Chemistry
1986 — 1990
Skills
- Patents
- Small Molecules
- High Throughput Screening
- Drug Design
- Lead Change
- Oncology
- CRO
- Pharmaceutical Research
- Medicinal Chemistry
- Heterocyclic Chemistry
- Biochemistry
- Synthetic Organic Chemistry
- Biotechnology
- Drug Metabolism
- Leadership
- Immunology
- Assay Development
- Drug Discovery
- Organic Synthesis
- Lc-Ms
- Parallel Synthesis
- Clinical Development
- Drug Development
- Cancer
- Purification
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