Herren Wu
Chief Technology Officer
AstraZeneca
Austria
Biography
Herren founded the Department of Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering in January 2002, when he joined MedImmune as Director. He was promoted to Senior Director in 2004 and Vice-President in 2006. He was also the founding department head for Biosuperiors R&D and led this organisation for three years (2010-2013). During his tenure, Herren has successfully integrated ADPE platforms across all sites following the MedImmune/Cambridge Antibody Technology (CAT) merger. Under his leadership, ADPE developed many proprietary cutting-edge technology platforms, including half-life extension technology (YTE), bi-specifics/multi-specifics, protein scaffolds, antibody-drug conjugates, Blood-Brain-Barrier technology, peptide therapeutics, phenotypic screening and most recently mass-spec proteomics and non-natural amino acid technology.
Research Interest
Immunology
