Lei Wu
Vice President, China Operations
Pharmaceuticals
Pall ForteBio
China
Biography
Dr. Wu brings strong leadership in both technology and business with extensive experience in strategy, management, operations, manufacturing, and international experience in the Chinese biotechnology market. Before he joined ForteBio, Dr. Wu co-founded AVIVA Biosciences in 1999 with technology transfer from Tsinghua University in China and held a variety of executive positions including COO, VP of system development and VP of manufacturing. Dr. Wu and his team developed planar patch-clamp technology which has won the award of Breakthrough Innovation in Science by BIOCOM in year 2002. Between 1995 and 1999, Dr. Wu worked at Nanogen where he was instrumental in the development of APEX biochip and instrument. He was responsible for development of the Lab-on-a-Chip at Nanogen that was published in Nature Biotechnology and selected as Breakthrough of the Year by SCIENCE magazine in 1998. He is inventor and or co-inventor on 18 issued patents, 12 pending patent applications and 32 publications. Dr. Wu received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago and post-doctoral training at Massachusetts Institute Technology (MIT).
Research Interest
Business, Management, Finance, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Device
