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Gerald Chan is the co-founder of Morningside, an international investment group with private
equity, venture capital and property investments. The group's technology venture portfolio is
spread across life science, the Internet, and clean energy sectors.
In the life science sector, Morningside focuses on start-up biotechnology companies founded
on novel scientific discoveries. He serves on the boards of Advanced Cell Diagnostics, a
molecular tools and diagnostics company, Oxyrane which develops new methods for
manufacturing therapeutic proteins, Stealth Peptides which develops mitochondria-targeting
therapeutics, Synchroneuron which develops CNS drugs, Apellis, which develops complement
inhibitors, and the vaccine companies VTI and Matrivax.
Gerald serves on the Global Advisory Council of the International Society for Stem Cell Research,
the International Board of Governors of the New York Academy of Sciences, the Global Advisory
Council of Harvard University, the Dean's Board of Advisors of the Harvard School of Public
Health and the advisory boards of the Cold Spring Harbor Conferences Asia, the Johns Hopkins
Nanjing Center and the Columbia University Center for Radiological Research. He is a trustee of
Fudan University in Shanghai and chairs the Board of Overseers of the Morningside College of
the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, New
York.
He received his BS and MS degrees in engineering from UCLA, his Master's degree in medical
radiological physics and Doctor of Science degree in radiation biology from Harvard University.
He did his post-doctoral training at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as a fellow of the Leukemia
Society of America. In 2011, the Chinese University of Hong Kong conferred on him an honorary
Doctor of Social Science degree. He was the commencement speaker of the Harvard School of
Public Health in 2012 and was elected to an honorary fellowship at Wolfson College of Oxford
University in 2013.
Keynote Speakers
Lee Babiss, Ph.D., is PPD’s chief scientific officer, executive vice president of discovery
innovation and chief executive officer of X-Rx. In these roles, he provides insight and guidance
regarding scientific matters across all PPD business units as well as strategic leadership to the
company’s discovery innovation business.
Babiss joined PPD in 2010 with more than 21 years of experience in leading R&D efforts in
support of drug discovery. He most recently served as president and director of pharmaceutical
research for F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., in Basel, Switzerland, where his responsibilities
included leading global laboratory functions in chemistry, discovery technologies, therapeutic
proteins, non-clinical safety and informatics. He supported drug discovery efforts in oncology,
neurosciences, inflammation, virology and metabolism, and was a member of the company’s
pharma executive and strategic portfolios committees.
Prior to joining Hoffmann-La Roche, Babiss spent seven years with Glaxo Inc., now
GlaxoSmithKline. As vice president of biological sciences and genetics, he had global
accountability for developing and implementing the company’s corporate genetics strategy and
oncology research efforts focused on the cell cycle.
Babiss earned a doctorate in microbiology from Columbia University and completed his
postdoctoral fellowship at The Rockefeller University, where he served as an assistant and
associate professor. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers, received
numerous fellowship awards and grants, and serves on several scientific advisory committees
and boards.
David E. Schulman
Partner, Dechert
David E. Schulman advises life sciences companies, financial institutions, private equity fund
sponsors, and venture capital firms in both the United States and Europe on corporate and
securities matters. Mr. Schulman has extensive experience representing public and private
companies, particularly in the life sciences and investment management sectors, in connection
with acquisitions, divestitures, and other significant corporate transactions, including tender
offers, stock-for-stock mergers, proxy contests, cash mergers, spin-offs, restructurings, stock
and asset acquisitions and dispositions, and troubled company M&A and bankruptcy-related
transactions. He also frequently advises life sciences and other technology-based companies on
domestic and cross-border collaborations, co-promotions, licenses, and distribution
arrangements.
Mr. Schulman has been ranked among the top lawyers globally for life sciences by leading legal
directory Chambers Global, where he is praised for being “one of the best business and
corporate lawyers in the life sciences sector” with “a deep knowledge of the industry, which he
successfully combines with great legal skills.” Mr. Schulman has also been recognized for his
work in healthcare: life sciences and for mergers and acquisitions by legal directory The Legal
500 (U.S.), where he is cited for his “ability to mediate in difficult commercial negotiations
between the parties.” In addition, he has been recommended for life sciences: commercial and
partnering matters in the United States by Practical Law Company.
Mr. Schulman was based in Dechert’s London office for seven years and currently divides his
time between the firm’s London and Washington, D.C. offices. He is co-head of the firm’s Life
Sciences practice.
Emmanuelle Trombe
Partner, Dechert
Emmanuelle Trombe practices in the areas of corporate and general commercial law, with a
focus on the pharmaceutical, medical device and healthcare industries.
Ms. Trombe has significant experience both in France and in the U.S. assisting clients with large-
scale, international projects. She represents pharmaceutical, medical device and bio-
pharmaceutical companies in relation to:
Outsourcing projects
Product development
Licensing agreements
Ms. Trombe also represents VC funds and bio-pharmaceutical companies in connection with
financing rounds, including the IPO process.
Listed in Chambers Europe 2011 for Pharma-Life Sciences in France, Ms. Trombe is “a corporate
and commercial expert [who] is also an established figure in the life sciences field. She assists
U.S. and French pharmaceutical, medical device, and bio-pharmaceutical companies with issues
including acquisitions and divestitures, outsourcing projects, product development and
licensing agreements.”
Lewis Ho
Partner, Dechert
Lewis Ho leads the life sciences practice in Asia. He helps life sciences and technology
companies and their financial sponsors to capture, manage, risk assess, evaluate and monetize
their intellectual property assets. His practice focuses on structuring technology transfer
transactions and enforcing intellectual property rights.
Mr. Ho has extensive experience advising on both inbound and outbound technology transfer
transactions, and has negotiated more than 40 collaboration, outsourcing, joint venture and
licensing deals with various life sciences companies, academic institutes, hospitals and contract
research organizations in the last few years.
Mr. Ho has been recognized by Chambers Asia and Legal 500 as one of the leading life sciences
and IP lawyers in China. In the 2012 edition of Chambers Asia, clients described him as
“professional and prompt in providing feedback” and as producing “a high quality of work.” He
was also included in two 2012 Intellectual Asset Management magazine lists: “The World’s
Leading Patent Practitioners 1000,” where he is recommended in both the licensing and
litigation sections, and “Life Sciences 250—The World’s Leading Life Sciences Patent Litigators.”
He is also recommended by The International Who’s Who Legal 2013 as a life sciences lawyer
for intellectual property, regulatory and transactional advice in China. Mr. Ho is frequently
invited to speak on life sciences and intellectual property issues at conferences and seminars.
Prior to joining Dechert, Mr. Ho served as a resident partner in the Shanghai and Beijing offices
of a major international law firm.
Zhi Hong, PhD
Senior Vice President
Head of Infectious Diseases Therapy Area Unit
Head of virtual Liver Unit
GSK
Dr. Zhi Hong is the Senior Vice President, Head of the Infectious Diseases (ID) Therapy Area Unit
at GSK. He is accountable for designing, developing and delivering the end-to-end R&D strategy
and pipeline. Zhi is a Board member of ViiV Healthcare, a specialist HIV company established by
GSK and Pfizer. He is a member of the Microbial Threats Forum at the Institute of Medicine.
Under his leadership, GSK ID pipeline has been revitalized since 2007 with the recent approval
of Tivicay, an HIV medicine. Prior to joining GSK, Zhi was the Chief Scientific Officer and
Executive Vice President at Ardea Biosciences, a biotech company acquired by AstraZeneca. Zhi
has many years of experience in drug discovery and product development. He is a public health
advocate and has helped to establish multiple public private partnerships with US Government,
European Commission and Philanthropic Organizations. Zhi has extensive business
development experience and invested/divested broadly through various innovative
transactions and start-ups. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Fudan University at
Shanghai, China and his Ph.D from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Panelists
Jay Dong
General Manager, Asia Pacific, Cell Signaling Technology
Jay Dong is General Manager, Asia Pacific Region, Cell Signaling
Technology (CST), Inc., Danvers/Boston, MA, USA. Jay is also the founding
General Manager of CST (Shanghai) Biological Reagents Company, the
China subsidiary of Cell Signaling Technology, Inc. Jay has successfully
built CST China business and a professional team of Marketing, Sales,
Channel Management, Technical Support, Applications, Logistics and
Warehouse Management, HR, and Customer Care during the past few
years. Today, CST is well recognized as the “Golden Standard” of its kind
by many customers across China.
Before joining CST, Jay was with Becton Dickinson and Company, as US Marketing Manager and
Asia Pacific Business Manager, in the US and in Singapore. He is a graduate of Tufts University
Fletcher School, in Boston, USA, and of Peking Union Medical College-Faculty of Medicine of
Tsinghua University, in Beijing, China. Jay has served as a Board Director of Sino-American
Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Professionals Association (SABPA) in San Diego (2004-2006),
and as a Board Director of CST Japan (2009/2010). Jay is an elected Board member of BayHelix
Group, and also serves as Vice Chairman of the Board.
Greg B. Scott
President and Founder, ChinaBio® LLC
Lawrence is currently managing director and head of healthcare for Primavera Capital. Previous
to joining Primavera, he was Head of Asia Healthcare for Macquarie Capital and prior to
Macquarie, was an Executive Director in Goldman Sachs with roles in GS Direct Asia in Hong
Kong and healthcare investment banking both in Hong Kong and New York.
Lawrence holds a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Economics and a Doctor of Medicine from
Boston University and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
Ian Woo
Managing Director, Lazard
Official Partners
Publicity Partners
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Registration:
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Please register early
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11thAnnualConf@bayhelix.org or your email address as the email address for the initial
registration 4. Select Member Center -> Events Management -> January 2014, and click 11th
BayHelix Annual Conference hyperlink on January 12 calendar
4. Please follow the annual conference registration process, and register yourself. At this stage,
you may change the email to your own preferred email address (there are several places you
need to change to your own email address)
5. Lunch, tea breaks and reception are provided.
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BayHelix:
BayHelix is an organization of leaders of Chinese heritage in the global life sciences and
healthcare community. We aspire to shape the growth of the life sciences and healthcare
industry around the Pacific Rim and beyond, foster and create business opportunities, supply
and nurture the leaders for the community, and network and share information and experience.
BayHelix is a non-profit organization and its membership is by-invitation-only.
Since our inception in 2001, we have been steadily growing our membership to over 500
members throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Greater China. Our membership
base covers virtually all of the world’s top pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies,
and strong presences in professional services, including consulting, investment banking,
venture capital, private equity, and legal services. Our members are experienced business
professionals, and almost all of them hold leadership positions within their organizations and
have strong relationships with other senior executives in the industry. More than one third of
our members are “C-level” executives (CEO, CFO, COO, etc.). The R&D heads of most MNC
pharmaceutical companies in China/Asia are BayHelix members.