TEACHER
Date:24 July
Time:14:10 – 14:15 (GMT+8)
Chairman
Taiwan Bio Industry Organization
Since 2020, Dr. Wu has been Chairman of the Taiwan Bio Industry Organization. He currently holds the position of Executive Advisor at Taiwan Bio-Manufacturing Corporation. From 2018 to 2023, he served as President of the Development Center for Biotechnology and as Director of the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries Promotion Office (BPIPO) at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan. He is also an entrepreneur and an expert in biologics, including recombinant proteins, vaccines, and therapeutic antibodies. Additionally, he was an associate professor of the Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Taiwan University, 1995 through 2000 and co-founded in 2000 AbGenomics Corp., a biotech company specializing in development of therapeutic antibodies.
Over the past 20 years, he has produced over 30 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and been granted 8 international patents, of which all were out-licensed for commercial applications. Dr. Wu received his Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry from University of Maryland at Baltimore and was a Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Fellow in the Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington.
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