Departure of Dr Mingqiang Zhang
for China and appointment of Dr Tai-Ping Fan as
President Assistant of the Academy
After working as Senior Vice
President for 5 years at Biotica, Dr Mingqiang
Zhang, Vice Chairman of CLSS-UK, Fellow and
President Assistant of ALSC-UK has accepted a
job offer in China.
Dr Zhang explains: ”After the
very enjoyable 5 years with Biotica,
establishing a robust drug discovery pipeline
and 2 major pharma partnerships with Wyeth and
GlaxoSmithKline, I have decided to move on to
join a pharma company in China, to establish a
biotech style R&D organisation & strategy there,
which is quite exciting to me.”
“I'd like to take this
opportunity to thank Qihe, Mingqing and all
CLSS-UK members and ALSC-UK Fellows for your
friendship and help during my tenure with the
CLSS & ALSC and hope we can keep contacts in the
future.”
Dr Qihe Xu, Chairman of CLSS-UK,
comments: “Mingqiang joined the CLSS-UK
committee and was appointed a Vice Chairman in
2007. He was elected a founding Fellow of our
Academy in 2008 and appointed President
Assistant of the Academy in 2009. As a core
leader of our Society and Academy, Mingqiang has
contributed hugely in virtually all major
projects of the Society and the Academy in the
past 2 years. Although we will have less
opportunity to see him after his departure for
his exciting new job in China, I would not say
that we will lose him as he will remain a close
friend and Past Vice Chairman to our committee
members and remain a Fellow of our Academy. I am
sure that Mingqiang will serve as a middleman to
promote our Society and Academy in China and to
promote Sino-UK collaborations in the field of
life sciences and biopharma as soon as he
settles down in China.”
Dr Zhang’s new job will be based
in Shanghai. For the convenience of running the
Academy and assisting President Mingqing Du in
Cambridge, the Academy has decided to accept
Mingqiang’s request to resign from the position
of President Assistant of ALSC-UK. From May
2009, Dr Tai-Ping Fan, a Fellow based in
Cambridge, will succeed Mingqiang to be the new
President Assistant.
All the best wishes to Mingqiang
and warm congratulations to Tai-Ping!
The Chinese
Life Scientists Society in the UK
The Academy of
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