More at stake than drug success for a trailblazing CEO

9 January 2017

Lan Huang is no stranger to awards, from being named Soroptimist International’s international-level Women’s Opportunity Award in 1997 alongside her biophysical chemistry PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, to picking up China’s Thousand Talent Innovator prize in 2009.

Her translational research in cancer signaling pathways involving Ras has been published in two papers in the scientific journal Nature and she has been hailed for her breakthrough work on ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation, a field of chemistry which won the Nobel Prize in 2004.

"I think that in the biotech business, people value you by your work"

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