Lawrence Dick
Kandaswamy Vijayan
John Price
John Houston
James Winkler
Hyunsun Jo
Dr. Hyunsun Jo is an entrepreneur in the biopharmaceutical industry. He is currently a Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Pin Therapeutics, which is located in South San Francisco and South Korea. Pin Therapeutics is backed by many venture capitals in South Korea and actively developing integrative drug discovery platform at the field of protein degradation therapeutics using small molecules. Prior to founding Pin Therapeutics, Dr. Jo has founded two biotech companies called by a LabQnA and an Embedbio. He obtained his BA and PhD in Molecular Biology (Metabolic Diseases) at Seoul National University and Postdoc (aging-related diseases) at the Gladstone Institute (UCSF).
Frank Mercurio
Frank Mercurio has over 25 years of research experience studying the molecular mechanisms underlying cancer and inflammation. Frank was Senior Director of Discovery Biology at Celgene where he initiated and successfully managed numerous Target and Drug Discovery programs. Among his key discoveries, Frank’s team elucidated the mechanistic process regulating activation of the NF-kB signaling pathway, which plays a critical role in the onset and progression of many types of cancer and inflammation. This program resulted in the identification of several novel therapeutic targets within the NF-kB pathway, creating several internal and partnered drug discovery programs. Frank also pioneered the development of an internal E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Program to identify small molecule modulators of protein degradation, an emerging area of drug development with enormous therapeutic potential. Another major focus of Frank's work was to develop technologies that enable the elucidation of drug mechanism of action. While at Celgene, he implemented these technologies to advance the understanding of Thalidomide and Lenalidomide mechanism of action.
Fleur Ferguson
Dr. Ferguson received her M.Sc in Chemistry from Imperial College London, and her Ph.D in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge. She performed her postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Professor Nathanael Gray at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She is currently and Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at U.C. San Diego.
Dhanusha Nalawansha
