Li (helen) Zhang
Senior Vice President, Technology and Manufacturing
Cellular Biomedicine Group
China
Biography
Dr. Zhang has more than 10 years’ experience in cGMP establishment and management, as well as in large-scale manufacturing of clinical grade cell and gene therapy products that meet FDA standards.
Research Interest
Dr. Zhang is the Senior Vice President of CBMG Technology and Manufacturing. She has more than 30 years’ research experience related to tissue, cellular and molecular biology. After graduating from medical school in 1982, Dr Zhang worked for over 10 years as a pathologist in clinical and instructional capacities. She began her cell and gene studies in 1993 at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin, Germany. She became the first Asian research scientist to be awarded the “Best Research Scientist Fellowship” at MDC. Her research of gene therapy for the treatment of brain tumor was published as a cover story at “Gene Therapy”.
