Minglang Wu

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About Minglang Wu

Highlight of Skills-Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery (e.g, hands-on experience with successful advancement of multiple drug candidates into preclinical development)-Synthetic Organic Chemistry and Chemical Process Development (e.g, supervisory experience with successful development/optimization of processes for various small molecules such as fluorine-containing advanced intermediates for APIs, pesticide active ingredients, and phospholipids/other pharmaceutical surfactant excipients).Summary of Experience-10+ years of medicinal chemistry experience in designing breakthrough ligands and generating/optimizing hit/lead compounds for CNS disorders, inflammation and cancer-related targets from among receptors, enzymes, micro RNAs and protein-protein interactions-6+ years of supervisory experience in recruiting/advising/leading BS/MS/PhD chemists and directing R&D teams in chemical process development/optimization efforts-15+ years of synthetic organic chemistry experience in designing, achieving and scaling-up novel and efficient synthesis of discrete and combinatorial organic compounds including chemotypically novel small molecule drug candidates, a complex natural product, oligosaccharides, nanometer-sized hollow polymeric capsules, agrochemical active ingredients, pharmaceutical intermediates (e.g, fluorine-containing organic molecules) and pharmaceutical surfactant excipients (e.g, phospholipids)-15+ years of hands-on analytical chemistry experience in realizing separation, purification and characterization of expected and unexpected organic reaction products as well as identification of concerned impurities by use of chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques-3+ years of full-time academic experience in teaching college courses in Medicinal Chemistry (including molecular biology of drug targets and pharmacology), Organic Chemistry, General Chemistry and Topics in Science.