• Postdoc Fellow at Dartmouth Medical School and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S.A.

• Ph.D. & B.S. in Biochemistry, Nanjing University, China

• RAC certification, Drug Investigator certification, and Certified Quality Auditor (CQA)

Dr. Gao has more than 20 years regulatory experience in US FDA overseeing the development and approval strategies of a broad range of drug and medical device products. After that, Dr. Gao worked as an independent consultant for 4 years providing advice on GMP inspection, quality system establishment, and IND filing strategies. Given her great experience with FDA’s regulatory requirements for drugs and medical devices, Dr. Gao helped many with technical and strategic advice on improving their GMP compliance to meet WHO certification requirements.

As a senior technical officer at PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health) China Office, Dr. Gao is responsible for providing strategic and technical advice to the Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access (CVIA/PATH) and obtaining the WHO certification for Chinese COVID-19 vaccine.

Before joining PATH, Dr. Gao worked at US FDA (CBER) where she held various positions since 1999. She served as chief review scientist to provide technical guidance and suggestions for regulatory agency’s review and approval processes. Her advisory scope included many areas such as clinical studies, GLP and cGMP compliance, and particularly the safety and effectiveness of in process testing during manufacturing process. Dr. Gao also worked at US FDA China Office stationed in Beijing as an inspector. She conducted many inspections of drug and medical device on Chinese manufacturers who export their products to US. During that time, she also provided a series of trainings to Chinese regulators and manufacturers on regulatory and compliance guidance and practice.

• Director and Professor of Gene Editing Center

• Postdoc Fellow at National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• Ph.D. at Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

• B.S. at Nankai University

• National Natural Science Foundation for Excellent Young Scholar, Shanghai Youth Outstanding Academic Leader, Pujiang Talent, Young Backbone of Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Young and Pioneer Talent of Shanghai Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Outstanding Innovation and Entrepreneurial Talent of Zhangjiang

Dr. Chen is an expert in DNA repair, gene editing and cancer biology. His studies were published in Nature Biotechnology, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Protocols, Cell Research, etc.

• Professor of Biomedical Sciences Institute

• Postdoc Fellow at Yale University, Postdoc Fellow at University of Connecticut

• Ph.D. at Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

• B.S. at Lanzhou University

• The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Talent, Hundred Talent of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Pujiang Talent, Outstanding Mentor Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Meiji Life Science Award

Dr. Yang is an expert in computational biology and RNA biology. In the past 5 years, his studies were published in Cell, Molecular Cell, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Cell Biology, etc.

• Professor of Medical Research Institute and Frontier Science Center for Immunology and Metabolism

• Postdoctoral Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Ph.D. at University of Colorado Anshutz Medical Campus

• B.S. in Life Science at Nanjing University

• Research Scientist of Vertex Pharmaceuticals (2016-2018)

• National high-level overseas talent

Dr. Yin is an expert in cell/gene therapy and drug delivery. His studies were published in Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Methods, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Chemical Biology, etc.

• Professor of Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies (SIAIS)

• Postdoc Fellow at University of California, Berkeley, Postdoc Fellow at National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• Ph.D. at Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

• B.S. in Life Science at Wuhan University

• Pujiang Talent

Dr. Yang is an expert in protein engineering and infectious disease. Her studies were published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, Nature Cell Biology, Science Advances, eLife, etc.