Bio-Club 2017 技术创业讲座: from scientist to entrepreneur

PKU-Bio Club -- for Entrepreneurship and Career Development for all in life sciences and biotech related disciplines, including but not limited to, biology, chemistry, medicine, bioengineering, data science, legal, finance, management, economics, public policy etc.

PKU-Bio Club

Dr. Yu, a brilliant innovator, successful serial entrepreneur and generous coach, has extensive knowledge in developing technologies, founding startups, leading companies to success, and building and fostering communities to support other scientists/entrepreneurs. In this workshop, Dr. Yu will share his invaluable knowledge and perspectives on how to make an impact in building successful companies.
 
Speaker Bio
Dr. Guo-Liang Yu is the Executive Chairman of Crown Biosicence Inc., a publically-listed personalized oncology platform company with ~600 employees globally.  He co-founded Epitomics Inc., an antibody biotechnology company, and served as Chairman, President and CEO for 10 years prior to its acquisition by Abcam for $170 million. 
Dr. Yu’s success is driven by his scientific curiosity and passion for translating scientific discovery to real products. After graduating from Fudan University in Shanghai, China, he came to the United States in 1984 to pursue advanced studies. He obtained his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, where he and Dr. Greider discovered telomerase and its mechanism in Dr. Blackburn’s lab. Drs. Blackburn and Greider received Nobel Prize in 2009 for their discovery. 
Dr. Yu later joined Dr. Frederick Ausubel’s lab at Harvard University to pursue the question of how plants defend themselves against pathogens without an immune system, and was the first person in the world to identify a plant disease resistance gene. In 1993, when genomics was still in its infancy, Dr. Yu joined Human Genome Sciences Inc. as one of the first few senior scientists, identifying human gene targets for drug discovery. Among several important drug targets he studied was BLys, the first successfully genomic target for the development of a lupus antibody drug Benlysta, which was approved by FDA in 2010. 
In 1998, Dr. Yu was attracted to identifying plant genes with economic value in agriculture and in bio-energy. He was Senior Vice President of R&D at Mendel Biotechnology Inc. where his team analyzed the function of a complete set of plant transcription factors, and ultimately identified several valuable traits such as enhanced crop yield, disease resistance, and drought tolerance. Dr. Yu has co-authored 43 peer-reviewed scientific articles that have been referenced by the scientific community over 6000 times. He is a co-inventor of more than 429 patents.
Dr. Yu is the founding president of the Chinese Biopharmaceutical Association (CBA) and serves on the boards of several professional organizations in the United States and China, including BayHelix, Chinese-American Bio/Pharmaceutical Society (CABS), National Foundation of Cancer Research, Ray Wu Memorial Foundation, University of Pacific. Dr. Yu is generous in coaching young entrepreneurs, and he has co-found a dozen startup companies in biotech and the healthcare sector, including Immune-Onc Therapeutics, Inc. in Palo Alto. He is also a venture partner at OrbiMed Venture LLC. 
余国良博士简历 
余国良出生于绍兴。杭州第二中学毕业。是美国华人生物医药科技协会创始会长，美国癌症研究基金会、吴瑞基金会、美中生命科学协会、美中医药协会和百华协会的理事，美国浙江商会执行会长。2009余国良被美国商业周刊(Business Week) 称为最有影响力的海龟 (The Most Influential 'Sea Turtles')之一。2010余国良入选全国千人计划创业人才并被美国科学家杂志(The Scientist)专题报道。2011余国良应邀参加第1 4届四次全国政协委员会。
余国良是一名学者。他是复旦大学生物化学学士，美国加州大学伯克莱分校博士(博士论文研究使导师获得诺贝尔奖)，哈佛大学医学院博士后。Human Genome Science 资深研究员，Mendel Biotechnology 资深研发副总裁。在Nature，Science，Cell 等学术杂志发表论文43 篇；获发明专利429 多个。余国良还在斯坦福大学，复旦大学，太平洋大学等校讲学。
余国良是一位连续创业者。他联合创建了近10 家生物技术公司并担任董事长。他创建的Epitomics公司以1.7 亿美元被英国上市公司Abcam并购。加入中美冠科后扭亏为盈把公司成功上市。他是20 家健康产业公司的天使投资人，培养了一批CEO 级别的人才。余国良同时是奥博资本的风险合伙人。奥博资本是专注健康产业的最大投资机构之一。
余国良热心公益。他和他的家人捐助很多贫困地区的孩子，关注山村孩子的教育问题。夫人和孩子每年到云南山区支教，并和百华协会担当者一同为腾冲小学建立“班班都有图书角“活动。他和夫人经常为各种公益捐款。
余国良近期部分讲演和媒体
2017 年3 月8 日
美国浙江商会做健康讲座。
2017 年2 月23日
易贸健康大会PDX 专场主席
2017 年2 月1 日
参加浙商总会大健康委员会南极论“健”之旅。
2016 年5 月28 日
影片
硅谷中国人主角，在美国上映
2016 年6 月11 日
美国华人生物医药科技协会年会，多家报纸报道
2016 年5 月28 日
复旦大学校庆，生命学院专题报告
2016 年3 月25 日
深圳国际精准医疗大会报告
2015 年12 月28 日圣地亚哥国际生物医疗大会报告
2015 年11 月17 日
杭州2015
BIO4P 大会报告
2015 年9 月20 日
波士顿哈佛大学奥苏贝尔教授退休典礼报告
2015 年8 月4 日
斯坦福大学管理学院讲学
2015 年7 月30 日
斯坦福大学管理学院讲学
2015 年7 月23 日
台湾生物技术年会年会报告
2015 年6 月26 日
美国华人生物医药科技协会年会上报告
2015 年5 月18 日
复旦大学生命学院报告
2015 年5 月13 日
南京百家汇专题报告
2014 年6 月14 日
黑马创业大赛导师

Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center, Rm 130

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