Leadership Team 2010-2011
President
Chaoyang Dai, Ph. D.
Principal Scientist, Merck Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA
Vice Presidents
Zhiyong Yang, Ph. D.
Principal Research Scientist, Pfizer Inc., Cambridge, MA
Qinglin Che, Ph. D.
Research Scientist, Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp., Lexington, MA
Zhihong Chen, Ph. D.
Sr. Research Investigator, Eisai Research Institute, Andover, MA
Sue Ma, M. D.
Scientist II, Novartis Institute of BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA
Executive Committee Members
Kevin Fang, Ph. D.
Director of Chemistry, Sepracor Inc., Marlborough, MA
Fred Hu, Ph. D.
Principal Research Scientist, Pfizer Inc., Cambridge, MA
Jia Huang, Ph. D.
Scientist, Allergan Inc., Cambridge, MA
Jinbo Lee, Ph. D.
President, Sage International Inc., Cambridge, MA
Shengfang Jin, Ph. D.
Director/Cell Biology, Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Fushuang Liu
Vice President, Wuxi Howfond Biopharma Co., Ltd., Wuxi, China
Hanlan Liu, Ph. D./MBA
Director/DMPK, Genzyme Corporation, Framingham, MA
Haihong Ni, Ph. D.
Director of Computational Science, Chemizon, Beijing, China
Shallwei Sun
President, Callisyn Pharmaceuticals, Inc, Boston, MA
Ze Tian, Ph. D.
Investigator, Children‟s Hospital, Boston/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Yongzhong Wang, Ph. D.
Staff Scientist, Genzyme Biosurgery/MTS, Cambridge, MA
Zhigang Wang, Ph. D.
Sr. Principal Scientist, Pfizer Research Technology Center, Cambridge, MA
Roger Xie, Ph. D.
Co-founder, EVP, Head of Global Development, China PharmaHub Corp., Cambridge, MA
Herong Yang, Ph. D.
Chief Architect, Open Channel Solutions, Boston, MA
Yongwen (Tony) Yuan
Cheminformatics Specialist, Novartis Institute of BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA
Philip Zhang, Ph. D.
Co-founder and Co-Managing Principal, Milstein Zhang & Wu LLC, Newton, MA
Wei Zhang, Ph. D.
Staff Scientist, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Norwood, MA
Weiyi (Wendy) Zhang, Ph. D.
President, Boston Lincoln International, Lincoln, MA
Liping Zhou, Ph. D.
Investigator, Novartis Institute of BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA
Zhendong Zhu, Ph. D.
Principal Scientist, Avila Therapeutics, Inc., Waltham, MA
Chairman, Board of Directors
Yihan Wang, Ph. D.;
Associate Director/Chemistry, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Board of Directors
Jun Han, Ph. D.
Founding President
Global R&D Project Manager, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Pomona, NY
Shiwen Lin, Ph. D.
Associate Director, Antigenics, Inc. Lexington, MA
Lixin Shen, Ph. D.
President and CEO, Wuxi Howfond Biopharma Co., Ltd., Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
Zhao-Kui Wan, Ph. D.;
Immediate Past-President
Principal Research Scientist, Pfizer Inc., Cambridge, MA
Erxi Wu, Ph. D.
Investigator, Harvard-MIT HST Division, Boston, MA
Junjun Wu, Ph. D.
Past President
Principal Research Scientist, Pfizer Inc., Cambridge, MA
CABA Advisors
Tomi Sawyer, Ph. D.
Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice-President, Aileron Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA
Yibin Xiang, Ph. D.
Senior Director/Medicinal Chemistry, Genzyme Corporation, Cambridge, MA
Gangfeng Xu, Ph. D.
Sr. Director/Head of Asia & Pacific Business Development, Pfizer Inc.
Howard Yuwen, Ph. D.
Sr. Director, Shire Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA
Chen Li, Ph. D.
Head of Research and Chief Scientific Officer, Roche R&D Center(China) Ltd.
Steve Yang, Ph. D.
Vice President and Head of Pfizer Asia R&D (Shanghai), China
Tim Clackson, Ph. D.
Sr. VP and Chief Scientific Officer, Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc.,Cambridge, MA
Youssef Bennani, Ph. D.
Vice President/Discovery Chemistry, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc., Cambridge, MA
Dawei Ma, Ph. D.
Professor, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Shanghai, China
Roger Tung, Ph. D.
CEO and President, Concert Pharmaceuticals, Lexington, MA
Steve Projan, Ph. D.
Vice President, Global Head of Infectious Diseases, Novartis Institute of BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA
John Piwinski, Ph. D.
Group VP and Site Head, Merck Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA
Tarek Mansour, Ph. D.
EVP, Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc., Vancouver, Canada
Liming Shao, Ph. D.
Senior Director/Medicinal Chemistry, Sepracor Inc., Marlborough, MA
Pierre Dodion, M. D., MBA
Sr. VP and Chief Medical Officer, Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc., Cambridge, MA
Yuanli Liu, Ph. D.
Director of China Initiative, Sr. Lecturer on International Health, Harvard School of Public Health
Shi Li, Ph. D.
Senior Director/Technology Development, Genzyme Corporation, Framingham, MA
Tse Ping
Chairman, Sino Biopharmaceutical Ltd., Beijing, China
Suvit Thaisrivongs, Ph. D.
Vice President, Pfizer, Inc., Cambridge. MAARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA
CABA Legal council
Fred Gilman
Attorney at Law, Lynch, DeSimone & Nylen, LLP, Boston, MA