Ming Wang, PhD, MBA

Dr. Ming Wang is Founder, President and CEO of Phanes Therapeutics, Inc. based in San Diego. The company focuses on drug discovery and development to treat cancer and metabolic complications. Ming was formerly Vice President and Disease Area Leader of Diabetes/Metabolism in Janssen, the pharmaceutical sector of Johnson & Johnson, with global responsibility for the […]

Hui Zou, PhD

Dr. Hui Zou is an experienced and accomplished oncologist in both academia of biological research and industry of drug development. Before joining the industry, Hui was a tenured Associate Professor of the Department of Molecular Biology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He was awarded American Cancer Society Research Scholar and Kenneth G. and Elaine A. […]

Rita Laeufle, MD, PhD

Dr. Rita Laeufle brings more than 18 years of experience in drug development in oncology and Immunotherapy, most recently serving as CMO at Imugene Biotech, Australia where she is responsible for their oncolytic virus and B-cell vaccine program. During her previous position at Oncolytics, she developed immunotherapy combination studies with the oncolytic virus pelareorep and […]

Jeremy Barton, MD

Jeremy Barton, M.D. has over 30 years of experience in all phases of oncology drug development in the pharmaceutical industry in Switzerland, UK and currently in the US. He is now working as a self-employed consultant, advising biotech companies on strategic oncology drug development Most recent industry responsibilities in the US have included Chief Medical […]

Chong Wang, PhD

Chong Wang, PhD, serves as Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Phanes Therapeutics. Chong leads intellectual property, legal, human resource, accounting and other aspects of the company’s operations. Chong has been with Phanes since its inception in 2016, she was previously Senior Vice President and Site Head in Phanes’ Shanghai site. Before joining Phanes, […]

Chelsea Johnson, RN, BSN

Chelsea Johnson, RN, joined Phanes Therapeutics as Senior Director, Clinical Science and Operations. Ms. Johnson supports clinical development and serves as the lead for the clinical operations team for advancing Phanes clinical studies and managing relationships with the clinical sites. Ms. Johnson has over 15 years of experience in clinical development and clinical operations, from […]

Dirk Arnold, MD, PhD

Dirk Arnold completed his MD degree at the Universities of Ulm and Berlin in Germany, and he undertook specialist training at Charité, Humboldt University in Berlin. Subsequently, he trained as a medical oncologist and specialist in palliative care at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Halle, Germany. In 2009, he qualified with a clinical PhD […]

Tony Mok, MD

Professor Tony Mok, BBS BMSc, MD, FRCP(C), FRCP(Edin), FRCP(Lond), FHKCP, FHKAM(Medicine), FASCO, Member of ASHK Professor Tony S.K. Mok was trained at the University of Alberta, Canada and he subsequently completed a fellowship in medical oncology at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto.  After working as a community oncologist in Toronto, Canada for seven years, […]

Pasi Jänne, MD, PhD

Dr. Jänne is the Director of the Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the David M. Livingston, MD Chair at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He is also the Director of the Belfer Center for Applied Cancer Science at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. After […]

Shun Lu, MD, PhD

Professor Lu is a leading clinician-scientist in the field of lung cancer. He is Professor and Chief of Shanghai Lung Cancer Center at Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He holds an M.D. degree and a Ph.D. degree, and trained at MD Anderson Cancer Center in the United States and worked as a Visiting […]