Alliance Pharma is pleased to announce that Zhiyang Zhao, PhD, has joined its leadership team as Chief Scientific Officer (CSO).
Dr. Zhao brings to Alliance Pharma over 20 years of pharmaceutical industry experience with special focus on metabolic and pharmacokinetic properties of small and large molecules in drug discovery and development. Dr. Zhao has previously held positions at Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, and Amgen. Most recently, Dr. Zhao served as Amgen’s Site Director for Preclinical Studies at Cambridge, Massachusetts, for over 11 years. He previously served as a Director at GlaxoSmithKline and as an Investigator at Pfizer. His extensive experience spans the entire drug discovery and development process (discovery, development, and in-/out-licensing) in oncology, metabolic, antiviral, CNS, and inflammatory diseases.
Dr. Zhao’s contributions and accomplishments of integrating in vitro and in vivo ADMET (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and toxicity) information to optimize drug candidate properties are documented in over 50 peer-reviewed scientific publications and patents in the areas of new drug targets, drug metabolism, pharmacokinetics, and toxicology. He currently also holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor at the Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and serves as the Editor-In-Chief for Drug Metabolism Letters.
“We are thrilled to have Dr. Zhao on our scientific leadership team; he will further strengthen and broaden our scientific excellence in the services that we provide,” said Frank Li, PhD, Co founder and President of Alliance Pharma. “In his role as CSO, Dr. Zhao, will provide scientific, intellectual, and managerial leadership as well as explore scientific and business opportunities beyond Alliance Pharma’s current scope of business.”
Dr. Zhao expressed his excitement in joining the diverse team at Alliance Pharma, stating, “I look forward to working with the talented team at Alliance Pharma as we explore new business opportunities and expand our scientific and technical capabilities to better serve our clients. Having spent more than two decades in various leadership roles in pharmaceutical companies, I fully understand our clients’ challenges and needs.”
