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Dr. Steven
Lee |
CEO |
Dr. Lee received his Ph.D. in
Biochemical Engineering from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. He has a broad
range of industrial experiences in bioprocess
development, commercial product launches and
biologics manufacturing. Previously he
held various engineering, management and
executive positions at Hoffman-La Roche, Inc.,
Merck & Co., and Bristol Myers Squibb
Company. Most recently before joining
A-Bio, Dr. Lee held the position of Vice
President and General Manager of the BMS
Syracuse, New York, Biologics Manufacturing and
Process Development complex overseeing over 800
employees and a wide range of biological drugs
and development candidates including antibody
therapeutics.
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Dr. Emil Fu |
Vice-President,
Bioprocess Development |
Dr. Fu is the Vice President of
BioProcess Development at A-Bio. He received his
Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from the Case
Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio and
did his post-doctoral research in mass
spectrometry at the Brookhaven National
Laboratories, Upton, New York. He has more than 25
years of broad drug discovery research experience
with major Pharma. Before joining A-Bio, he held a
range of research and management positions at
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Inc.
of Novartis Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Fu effectively
championed many cutting-edge technologies for drug
discovery research. He established very early on
Novartis' mass spectrometry focused protein
analytics platform and the protein analytics team
which carried out competitive protein
characterization support and research (e.g. in
proteomics) as well as pioneering mass spec based
biologics PK studies. He last held the position of
Vice President and Head of Discovery Technologies
USA at Novartis' global research headquarters at
Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is responsible
for the research and development activities in
analytical sciences, structural biology as well as
imaging.
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Dr. Hsieh Jih-Han |
Director,
Biotech Operations |
Dr. Hsieh obtained B.S.E.
degree in Chemical Engineering, M.S. in Polymer
and Physical Chemistry, and M.Phil. / Ph.D.
degrees in Biochemical Engineering from Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, and is a
registered Professional Engineer in USA. Dr. Hsieh
has experience in biopharmaceutical industry
working with commercial recombinant therapeutic
protein process development / scale-up for
pre-clinical studies, clinical trials, FDA / EMEA
licensed biopharmaceutical facility design, CMC
section of BLA submission and approval of
humanized monoclonal antibody, CGMP manufacturing
and productivity improvement of the approved
therapeutic antibody for market supply. Dr. Hsieh
was previously with Merck & Co., Inc.,
Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Development Center for
Biotechnology (Taiwan, ROC), and Celanese
Corporation (now Celgene Inc.).
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Dr. Kean-Chong Loh |
Director,
GMP Operations |
Dr. Loh is the Director of GMP
Operations. He holds a first class honors B.Eng. (Hons) in Biochemical Engineering from the University College London, United Kingdom and received his
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the National University of Singapore.
He has held various R&D, engineering and
project management positions at Singapore Biotech
Pte Ltd, Bioprocessing Technology Centre (BTC) and
DSM Biologics. Prior to joining A-Bio, he
was the Senior Manager of process engineering and
validation at the Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing
Technology Centre (BMTC).
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Dr. Wayne
Gordon |
Director,
Quality and Regulatory Affairs |
Dr. Gordon has
responsibility for the Quality and Regulatory
functions at A-Bio. He received his Ph.D. in
physiology and biophysics from the University of
Illinois and did post-doctoral training in
protein purification and characterization at
the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center. Since then he held various
positions in downstream purification and
analytical development, quality control,
quality assurance and regulatory affairs at
Tanox, Inc. USA. He was Senior Director
of Quality of Tanox, Inc., before joining
A-Bio in January of 2008.
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Ms Angie Ng |
Financial Controller |
Ms Ng is responsible for the finance and treasury functions as the Financial
Controller of A-Bio. She holds a Bachelor degree in Accounting and Finance
from the University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom, and is a Fellow of the
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and a member of the
Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (CPA). Ms Ng has
spent her career to date working for multinational companies in the biotech
R&D, IT, telecommunications, freight forwarding and oil and gas sectors in
the Asia Pacific region. She has more than 10 years of experience in
financial management, accounting, strategic planning and budgeting, audit,
taxation, company secretarial as well as human resources.
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