CHINESE AMERICAN CHROMATOGRAPHY ASSOCIATION - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Executive Director, Bioanalytical Services Dept
• Senior VP of DMPK & Bioanalytical Services Department at Pharmalegacy
• VP of DMPK & Bioanalytical Services Department at Medicilon

Dr. Baomin Xin, Senior VP of DMPK & Bioanalytical Services department at Pharmalegacy, obtained his PhD under Professor Milton L Lee at Brigham Young University (BYU). During his PhD research, he was one of the chief designers who design and built an orthogonal extraction time-of-flight mass spectrometer. He designed, and made the mechanical drawings of, the inlet assembly, including the main flange, RF-only quadrupole focusing lens set, inter-quad lens, DC/RF quads set, and exit slit. Outstanding

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• President
• President - Elect
• Senior Research Scientist in Advanced Materials Technology

Dr. Chuping Luo is the Senior Research Scientist in Advanced Materials Technology. His interests includes developing new chromatographic stationary phases and application methods for bio-separation and small molecules. From 2010 to 2015, Dr. Luo was the Principal Scientist in Waters Corporation, where he developed many critical methods in solving the applications in Supercritical Fluid Chromatography

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• Emmi Zheng

Dr. Emmi Zheng received her B.S. in chemistry from Jilin University, and Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from Dr. David Hage's research group at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Emmi is currently an R&D Scientist in the biotherapeutics product development group at Smith & Nephew. Emmi has ten year research experience in bioanalytical chemistry. Research experience includes protein purification, separations and characterizations with various analytical techniques (e.g. LC, HPLC/UPLC, HPAC, LC-MS/MS, CE, SDS-Page, UV-Vis, Fluorescence, Chemiluminescence, etc), bioanalytical sample extraction and purification from matrix (e.g. SPE, LLE, etc), analytical method development, thermodynamic and kinetic studies of interactions among biomolecules, and development of enzyme potency assay. Emmi has published 26 peer-reviewed scientific articles or book chapters, having eight papers as first author. Her previous work was recognized by several awards, including the best poster award at the 2012 FACSS meeting, the 2015 Alumni Graduate Research Assistant Award at UNL, 1st place poster awards from the UNL Chemistry Department, the winner of 2015 Bioanalysis Young Investigator Award, and the winner of 2019 Chinese American Chromatography Association's Young Investigator Award.

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• Secretary
• Member / Fengjian Shi / Dr
• Scientist in Analytical Development at Biogen

Fengjian Shi Dr. Fengjian Shi is a scientist in Analytical Development at Biogen. Prior to joining Biogen, Fengjian received his B.S. in Chemistry from Nanjing University in 2011 and PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Temple University in 2017. Dr. Fengjian Shi is a scientist in Analytical Development at Biogen. He focuses on the method development, optimization, and transfer of chromatography and mass spectrometry assays for analyzing late-stage protein and antisense oligonucleotide therapeutics. In addition to providing support clinical portfolios at Biogen, he also works with scientists, engineers, and IT to develop automated and high throughput analytical workflows. Prior to joining Biogen, Fengjian received his B.S. in Chemistry from Nanjing University in 2011 and PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Temple University in 2017. He has published 10 peer-reviewed journal articles in Analytical Chemistry and Journal of American Society of Mass Spectrometry. He was invited to give talks on major conferences including ACS, ASMS, Pittcon, and CPSA-USA. He is on the executive committee and also serves on the webinar and symposium committee of CACA. Fengjian Shi, Committee Member Fengjian Shi Dr. Fengjian Shi is a scientist in Analytical Development at Biogen. Prior to joining Biogen, Fengjian received his B.S. in Chemistry from Nanjing University in 2011 and PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Temple University in 2017. Read more: Fengjian Shi, Committee Member

Dr. Frank J. Yang earned his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Utah under the supervising of Professor Calvin J. Giddings in 1973. In 1976, Dr. Yang joined Varian Associates Walnut Creek Division, California where he became Manager for the Chromatography Research Group. During his 10 years association with Varian, he had involved and was responsible for the development of 3000 series gas chromatograph, 5500 Series liquid chromatograph, and capillary column GC and HPLC products for Varian. In 1986, Dr. Yang served as vice president of technology for Lee Scientific, Inc. and was responsible for the development of the model 6000 Supercritical Fluid Chromatograph, column oven, and Flame Ionization Detector(FID). After the merger of Lee Scientific Inc. with Dionex Corporation, Sunnyvale, California in 1988, Dr.Yang became the Director of Technology for Dionex until January 1991. From January 1991 to March 1993, Dr.Yang was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the FFFractionation, Inc. in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1991. Dr. Yang founded Micro-Tech Scientific in Saratoga, California. in 1991. From 1991 to 2008, Dr. Yang served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Micro-Tech Scientific, Inc. in Sunnyvale, California. From 2009 to 2010, Dr. Yang was the Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of CVC Technologies. He is now the President of the AcuTech Scientific Inc., a San Diego, California Company. Dr., Yang is best known for his theoretical understanding of the theory of separation processes and his innovation and pioneering the development, engineering and commercialization of many products including capillary GC, HPLC, Supercritical Fluid Chromatograph, Field Flow Fractionation, multi-dimensional-HPLC, capillary column ultra-high pressure liquid chromatograph, nano-technology for biological sample preparation, cancer bio-marker Discovery and Quantification, Raman universal chemical detection system, etc. He holds more than 12 patents on key technologies in separation science. Dr., Yang is the author and co-author of over 65 scientific publications. He was a co-author of the biannual review on gas chromatography for Journal of Analytical Chemistry, and a co-author of the book Open Tubular Column Gas Chromatography-Theory and Practice, John Wiley, 1984.The Editor of the book Micro-bore Column Chromatography: A Unified Approach to Chromatography, Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1989. He served as a Consulting Editor for the LC/GC Magazine of Chromatographic Science, a member of the Advisory Board for the Journal of Micro-Column Separation, the Journal of Liquid Chromatography, and a member of the organizing committee for the International Symposium on Micro-Column Separations. Dr., Yang was a Guest Professor of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is now the Technical Advisor for the Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

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• Senior Scientist in Drug Product Development at BMS

Dr. Hongyue (Howard) Guo is a senior scientist in Drug Product Development at BMS. Prior to joining BMS, Howard has worked as an investigator in CMC analytical at GSK. Howard received Ph.D. degree in Analytical Chemistry from The University of Texas at Arlington in 2016.

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• Senior Scientist and Group Leader in Small Molecule Analytical Chemistry at Genentech

Dr. Kelly Zhang is a Senior Scientist and Group Leader in Small Molecule Analytical Chemistry at Genentech. Prior to joining Genentech, she worked at Allergan and Pfizer. Kelly has 15 years of pharmaceutical industry experience leading analytical activities of drug development from discovery to NDA for therapies in oncology such as Cotellic™ (Cobimetinib), immunology, ophthalmology and metabolic diseases etc. She serves as Subject Matter of Expert in analytical method

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• Treasurer
• R & D Manager of Liquid Separation Department

MDr. Michael Ye is the R&D Manager of Liquid Separation Department in Supelco, a division of Sigma-Aldrich. He has over 20 years experience in chromatographic analysis and separation including over 10 years experience in separation product research and development. He received his bachelor's degree from the Department of Chemistry, Lanzhou University and Ph.D. from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China. He has a MBA degree from Colorado State University.

Dr. Perry G. Wang is a chemist in the Office of Regulatory Science, US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA). His interests include analytical method development and validation for drugs and constituents of foods and cosmetic products using advanced instrumentation. His expertise focuses on high throughput drug analysis by LC/MS/MS. His current research focuses on developing analytical methods for constituents in cosmetics and dietary supplements by GC/MS/MS and LC/MS/MS. He received his PhD from Oregon State University and BS from Shandong University.

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• President
• Expert in HPLC
• Expert in HPLC, GC

Dr. Tao Jiang is an expert in HPLC, GC and LC/MS with more than 20 years of research experience in separation media, instrumentation and their applications in pharmaceutical field. Currently she is a technical fellow in R&D at Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Jiang has published 23 papers, two book chapters, and 34 patents/patent applications; she has delivered more than 50 conference presentations. She received her M.S. in Organic

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• President
• President Elect
• Secretary

Dr. Yi He studied applied chemistry and environmental chemical engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China and analytical chemistry in National University of Singapore (NUS) before completing her Ph.D. in analytical chemistry in 2004 at the City University of New York (CUNY). She took a position as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of CUNY in fall 2004 and was promoted to full professor in 2016. During 2012-13, Dr. He worked as a guest researcher Read more: Yi He, Committee Member

Edward Yeung received his A.B. in chemistry from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. Since then, he has been on the chemistry faculty at Iowa State University, where he is currently Robert Allen Wright Professor and Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences. His research interests span both spectroscopy and chromatography. He was an Associate Editor of Analytical Chemistry. He served on the editorial advisory board of Progress in Analytical Spectroscopy, Journal of Capillary Electrophoresis, Mikrochimica Acta, Spectrochimica Acta Part A, Journal of Microcolumn Separations, Electrophoresis, Journal of High Resolution Chromatography, Chromatographia and Journal of Biochemical and Biophysical Methods. He was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, was appointed Honorary Professors of Zhengzhou University, Zhongshan University, Xiamen University and Hunan University, and was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Chemical Instrumentation, 4 separate R&D 100 Awards, the Lester W. Strock Award, the Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award, the L. S. Palmer Award, the ACS Fisher Award in Analytical Chemistry, the Frederick Conference on Capillary Electrophoresis Award, the Eastern Analytical Symposium Award in Analytical Chemistry, the ACS Award in Chromatography, the International Prize of the Belgian Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the Eastern Analytical Symposium Award in Separation Science, the Ralph N. Adams Award in Bioanalytical Chemistry, the Golay Award, the Chicago Chromatography Discussion Group Merit Award and the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Analytical Chemistry.

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• Secretary

Currently working at Sepax Technologies as Vice President of Sales. Prior to Sepax, Helen served as Sales Manager at Sigma-Aldrich, GE Healthcare, and Fisher Scientific. Helen earned her master's degree in business administration from Rutgers Business School at Rutgers University and received her Bachelor of Science degree in molecular biology and biochemistry from Rutgers University.

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• Treasurer
• Howard

Michael W. Dong, PhD. Born in Shanghai and raised in Hong Kong, Michael is a principal consultant at MWD Consulting (www.mwd-consulting.com). He was formerly senior scientist at Genentech, Small Molecule Analytical Chemistry and QC, research director at Synomics Pharma (CRO), research fellow at Purdue Pharma, and senior staff scientist at Applied Biosystems / Perkin-Elmer. He holds a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from City University of New York and a certificate in Biotechnology

Job Titles:

• President Elect
• Secretary
• Principal Research Scientist in Crop Protection Regulatory Sciences

Mingming Ma is the Principal Research Scientist in Crop Protection Regulatory Sciences, Corteva Agriscience. She has more than 15 years experiences in analytical and bioanalytical chemistry for both small and large molecules. She has 26 peer-reviewed journal publications and co-edited a book. Dr. Ma serves as an American Chemical Society - AGRO division executive committee since 2019.

Job Titles:

• Scientific Director

Dr. Weng is Scientific Director, Janssen Fellow, and Head of East Coast Bioanalytical Chemistry and Pharmacokinetics, Janssen Research & Development, Johnson and Johnson, Spring House, PA, USA. In addition to support various programs at Janssen, current research interests of his group include novel bioanalytical quantitation for biomarkers, protein/peptides, and novel drug conjugates and unique formulations. Dr. Weng has over 100 peer-reviewed journal publications,

Tao received her Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from University of Florida in 2013. Her doctoral study under professor Weihong Tan explored the applications of aptamer-conjugated nanomaterials in cancer diagnostics and therapy. She then joined Small Molecule Pharmaceutical Sciences in Genentech, Inc. in 2014, where she has contributed to various projects ranging from antibody-drug conjugates to peptides and traditional small molecule drugs, with research interests in developing novel analytical and chromatographic techniques for characterization of new drug modalities. Tao is the recipient of CACA Young Investigator Award in 2018 and just joined CACA as an Executive Committee Member in Apr. So far, she has published 46 first author or co-author papers, written 4 book chapters, and filed 1 patent. In her spare time, she enjoyed traveling and reading.

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• Treasurer

Job Titles:

• President
• President - Elect
• Secretary

Dr. Zhang received his B.S. from Lanzhou University, China and his M.S. from the Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He joined Purdue University in 1996, and worked in Dr. Fred E. Regnier's laboratory. After receiving his Ph.D. degree in 2001, Dr. Zhang joined Beyond Genomics, Inc., a systems biology company in Boston, to develop bioanalytical and bioinformatics platforms for disease biomarker discovery and validation. In 2004, Dr. Zhang returned to Purdue University as the Director of Computational Life Sciences and Informatics and Research Assistant Professor at the Bindley Bioscience Center, Discovery Park. Dr. Zhang joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Louisville as an Associate Professor in 2008. His research focus on the development of high throughput bioanalytical methods and bioinformatics tools for the analyses of complex mixtures derived from living systems, to facilitate the development of preventive, predictive, and personalized medicine for the promotion of health and wellness.

Job Titles:

• President
• President & CEO, BioPharmaDev, Inc

Dr. Yan-Bo Yang has 30 years strong experiences in chemical analyses and purification of both small pharmaceutical compounds and large biologics; generic drug product developments; cGMP, regulations and compliances; and project management. Dr. Yang is an expert in chromatography theory, chromatography column technology and chromatography application development, analytical method development and validations, raw material qualification, and extractables/leachable studies. Dr. Yang founded BioPharmaDev, Inc. in 2012 providing analytical and drug product development services under highly regulated cGMP environments for pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and dietary supplement companies. Before starting BioPharmaDev, Inc. Dr. Yang was Director of Pharmaceutical Development at B. Braun Medical, Inc. and, over 13 years, was responsible for all aspects of pharmaceutical developments from initial conception of product ideas to product launches. Prior to B. Braun, Dr. Yang was Director of Research at The Separations Group, Inc (Vydac), responsible for developing new HPLC packing materials/columns and studying separation mechanisms using different chromatography methodologies. Dr. Yang graduated from Beijing Institute of Technology in China under the guidance of Prof. Fu Ruonong, obtained his Ph.D degree in Chemistry at the State University of Ghent in Belgium with Prof. M. Verzele and Prof. Pat Sandra, and conducted a PostDoc research in Biochemistry at Purdue University in USA with Professor Fred Regnier. Dr. Yang is President of Sino-American Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Professionals Association (SABPA) OC/LA, President of AOAC International, Southern California Section and the founding President of Chinese American Chromatography Association (CACA).