Dr. Clement Leong
Board
Ascend Biopharmaceuticals
Australia
Biography
Dr. Clement Leong has more than 20 years of biotech, pharma and venture capital experience in Australia and the United States, with companies such as Schering-Plough BioPharma in Palo Alto, California, Entelos Inc. in Foster City, California and SciVentures Investments in Melbourne, Australia. During this period he actively led multiple development programs and completed a series of financing and licensing transactions. He was the founding chairman of Ascend and has led the Company’s clinical and preclinical programs. He has also been involved in the mezzanine funding of a number of ASX listed Australian biotech companies (e.g., Evogenix, ASX: EGX and Patrys Pty Ltd, ASX: PAB) and was the founding investor and an executive director in a number of private Australian biotech and medical device companies. Clement earned his PhD from the Department of Medicine at the University of Western Australia and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM).
Research Interest
business
