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Dr. Wen Luo has over 20 years of experience in biomedical research and industry including more than 15 years of experience in applying genomic technology in drug discovery and development. Prior to founding Denovo Biopharma, Dr. Luo managed the genomic group and provided bioinformatic support to a broad range of research projects across a number of
therapeutic areas including oncology, hematology, inflammation and metabolic diseases at Ligand Pharmaceuticals. He was also responsible for developing clinical biomarkers for drugs in various stages of clinical trials. Before joining Ligand, he was a senior scientist for bioinformatics at Incyte Genomics, where he managed one of the largest proteomic databases, LifePro. He was also involved in discovering novel human genes and splice variants, and was the co-inventor of patents covering hundreds of novel genes derived from these findings. Prior to Incyte Genomics, he was a research scientist at Sugen, which had been acquired by Pharmacia, where he worked on drug target identification and validation for a number of novel kinases discovered at Sugen. Dr. Luo was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute post-doc fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, and received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Luo received pre-med training at Peking University and medical training at Peking Union Medical College.
