Our Story

BEYANG Therapeutics Co., Ltd. is an innovative biopharmaceutical company that employs its proprietary ExCEED platforms to accelerate the process of new drug discovery and development in disease areas of significant unmet medical needs. Founders and management team each has more than 20 years of experience and worked at Pfizer, Merck, Astra Zeneca, Schring Plough and Hengrui previously. They are quite experienced in drug target selection, CADD, AIDD, bioassay screening and optimization, as well as DMPK. Together they have contributed to the development of more than 10 clinical candidate molecules, of which three drugs (Sunitinib/Axitinib/Crizotinib) have been approved by FDA and NMPA.

 

BEYANG has established a proprietary computer-accelerated integrated drug discovery platform, ExCEED, which utilizes novel molecular generation and optimization method MMPT and in silico DMPK simulation prediction to guide the discovery and development of preclinical candidate molecules. The platform greatly improves the efficiency and shortens the time from leads to preclinical candidates. By focusing on diseases with significant unmet medical needs such as ocular diseases and cancer, we aim to build a DreamWorksTM-like organization in drug discovery, by building our own pipeline and collaborating with partners.


Leadership

Consultant

A passionate drug hunter and seasoned executive with more than 20 years of professional and managerial experiences with major pharmaceutical companies in the United States and China, 12 years in Pfizer and 9 years in Hengrui, respectively. 

In depth experience in drug discovery across multiple therapeutic areas for small molecules and biologics; made key contributions to eight clinical stage assets; including 4 small molecules and 4 biologics.

Inventor of more than 38 patents, and author of more than 30 peer-reviewed research articles.

2013 Shanghai Pujiang Talents.

QIYUE HU

FOUNDER & CEO

SHEK LING CHAN

SVP of Computational Technology

Over 30 years of working experience in computational chemistry, extensively with small molecules and proteins.

Served in TRIPOS, Structural Bioinformatics, Chemical Computing Group and Zymeworks.

Major contributor to the improvement of Sybyl and MOE, two widely used molecular modeling software.

Created MolAlign, a drug discovery software for generating molecular overlays.

PhD in Computational Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK.

Over 25 years of experience in preclinical drug discovery and translation medicine with extensive expertise in the fields of oncology, immune-oncology, autoimmune diseases, metabolic oncology and ocular diseases in pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

Advanced six preclinical candidates for clinical development. 

Previously served as Head of Biology at Eternity Bioscience, Inc., a US-based R&D center of Hengrui, and Director of Corporation Development in Strategy Department of GenScript Biotech Corp.

19 years of various roles in AstraZeneca, Merck and Schering-Plough, respectively.  

Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland, USA.

Inventor of more than 15 patents, and author of over 30 peer-reviewed research articles.

SUXING (SUE) LIU

SVP of Non-clinical Research

PhD, currently Associate Professor at University of Southern California. 

Nearly 20 years of working experience in pharmaceutical industry. (Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer Inc., Allergan plc, AbbVie Inc.)

Supported over 80 drug discovery and early development programs with successful results on the market, e.g. DIQUAS®, VYZULTA®, and LORBRENA®. 

Rich experience in areas of molecular drug delivery and targeting, rational design of prodrugs, transmembrane transporters, and ocular therapeutics. 

Member of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, American Chemical Society, Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society.

Reviewer for journals like Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Life Sciences, Neuroscience Methods, Biochemical Pharmacology, and Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics.

Hovik Gukasyan

FORMULATION CONSULTANT

Hossein Ameri

CLINICAL CONSULTANT OPHTHALMOLOGY

MD, PhD, currently an Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at the University of Southern California (USC) Roski Eye Institute, and Director of USC Retinal Degeneration Center.

20+ years of experience in treating conditions such as diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, and inherited retinal diseases. 

Clinical practice comprises vitreoretinal surgery and medical retina. 

Research experience includes retinal prosthesis, retinal angiogenesis, and gene therapy. 

Inventor of 10 patent applications and author of over 60 peer-reviewed research articles.