George Wang
Dr. George Wang is Vice President of Biologics Innovation & Discovery at WuXi Biologics. Dr. Wang currently is responsible for the operation of the Protein Engineering Department, which includes improvement of domain antibody platform, generation and optimization of antibodies and other recombinant proteins, and support of bispecific antibody design, purification and analytics. Dr. Wang joined WuXi Biologics in 2014. In the past years, he has played different roles in the organization, including managing material generation for over 200 discovery projects, initiating domain antibody group, and establishing several bispecific antibody platforms. He innovated the proprietary WuXiBody® bispecific antibody platform which has been licensed to 12 clients with over $500 million deal value. Prior to joining WuXi Biologics, Dr. Wang worked at Bayer Healthcare for nine years as an antibody discovery group head. He contributed to several global projects, including leading a project from target to clinical development. He also participated evaluation and license-in of new technologies. Before that, Dr. Wang worked as scientist at two biotech start-ups.Dr. Wang has authored over 20 publications in peer-reviewed journals and is the lead inventor on over 40 patents and patent applications.Dr. Wang obtained a Ph.D. in oncology from Peking University and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley. He completed his post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School.