Purdue University, USA Dr Jin Li has over 30 years biopharmaceutical experience (at Protherics and AstraZeneca), with senior scientific and leadership roles in early stage research; as well as experience in initiating and leading major collaboration, research and outsourcing programmes. Before founding HitGen, he held Global Director positions of Compound Sciences and Computational Sciences at AstraZeneca. This included responsibility for computational chemistry, computational biology and compound collection enhancement. Dr Li completed his BSc at Sichuan University, and PhD in macromolecular sciences at Aston University. He then completed post-doctoral research in theoretical biochemistry at Manchester University, UK. Dr Li is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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