Prof. Xiao-Fan WANG, was appointed as an independent nonexecutive Director on April 3, 2021. He is responsible for providing independent advice and judgment to our Board.

Prof. Wang is currently Donald and Elizabeth Cooke Professor of Experimental Oncology and Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at Duke University Medical Center. In November 2017, He was elected as a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since 2012 to 2013, he served as the president of the Society of Chinese Bioscientist in America. Since 2010, he has served as a member of the Expert Group of the Major Science Program of the PRC Ministry of Science and Technology. He was a member of the Overseas Expert Advisory Committee of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council.

Prof. Wang has published more than 160 papers and have been cited more than 16,000 times. From 1992 to 1998, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology of Duke University. He became an associate professor in 1998, and was promoted to full professorship in 2003. He was appointed the Donald and Elizabeth Cooke Distinguished Professor in 2009.

Prof. Wang obtained his bachelor of science degree in biochemistry from Wuhan University in the PRC in 1982. In 1986, he received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.