2019 Symposium
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2019 Featured Talks » Yi LiuTargeting KRAS mutant cancers with a covalent G12C-specific inhibitor
Yi Liu, PhD Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice President, Wellspring Biosciences LLC Joseph Califano, MD Yi Liu, Ph.D., is one of Kura’s co-founders and has served as Chief Scientific Officer since October 2014. Prior to joining Kura, Dr. Liu co-founded and served as Chief Scientific Officer of Wellspring Biosciences Inc., a private biopharmaceutical company, from July 2012 to September 2014. Dr. Liu also co-founded Intellikine, Inc., a private biopharmaceutical company, where he served as Vice President of Drug Discovery from 2007 to May 2012, until its acquisition by Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Prior to Intellikine, Dr. Liu was the head of the drug design group at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation. Earlier in his career, he held senior scientist positions at both SGX Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a public biopharmaceutical company which was acquired by Eli Lilly and Company in 2008, and Curagen Corporation, a public biopharmaceutical development company. Dr. Liu received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Princeton University, his MSc in computational chemistry from Beijing University and his BE in Chemical Engineering from Tsinghua University. |