HERANOVA LIFESCIENCES - Key Persons

Chun Zhang - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder

Dr. Denny Sakkas

Job Titles:
  • SAB Member Scientific Director, Boston IVF
Internationally recognized embryologist; Editorial Board of 5 leading journals in reproductive medicine

Dr. Guo Sun-Wei

Job Titles:
  • SAB Member Professor, Fudan University OB / GYN Hospital

Dr. Hugh Taylor

Job Titles:
  • SAB Member Chief of OB / GYN, Yale - New Haven Hospital

Dr. Will Dere

Job Titles:
  • SAB Member Internal Medicine, University of Utah

Farideh Bischoff

Job Titles:
  • Chief Medical Officer - Diagnostics

Jonathan Y. Zhao - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Co - Founder
Dr. Zhao was the Co-founder and Managing Director of Hangzhou Veritas-Igenomix Inc (杭州奕真生物科技有限公司) from May 2015 to Nov 2021 when it was acquired by Vitrolife AB (VITR.STO). And he was the Co-founder of Just Biotherapeutics based in Seattle from May 2015 to Jan 2019 when it was acquired by Evotech SE (EVO.NASDAQ). Dr. Zhao was the venture partner of Lilly Asia Ventures from May 2015 to May 2018 to build US-China cross-border biotech companies.

Penny Wan - Chairman, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Co - Founder
  • Member of the Board
Penny Wan is a board member and biotech executive in the biopharmaceutical industry. For more than two decades Ms.Wan has led the delivery of life-saving and life-changing biopharmaceutical therapies to patients and their caregivers. Ms. Wan's professional expertise closely mirrors her personal circumstances and she has successfully brought to bear her roles as a daughter, wife, mother, business leader and caregiver to inform the decisions she makes in her everyday work. Ms. Wan's career spans some of life's critical life milestones from women's health, infant formula and childhood vaccines up through cancer treatments, mental health and antidepressants, biologics for arthritis and post-menopausal osteoporosis affecting the elderly, and stroke and high risk cardiovascular disease. She recently co-founded Heranova Lifesciences, a startup focused on women's health, and serves as the company's chairwoman.

Steve Landau - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Chief Development Officer
  • Co - Founder
  • Chief of Development for Heranova
Dr. Landau serves as a Consultant Chief of Development for Heranova. He is most prominently consulting for Companies in the medical area.