ScinoPharm is expanding its chemistry-based API business into the biopharmaceutical area. Our principal focus is on development of a number of biopharmaceutical products and their production technologies.

Management Team

Hardy W. Chan, Ph.D. in Biochemistry, President of ScinoPharm Kunshan, Executive VP and CSO of ScinoPharm Taiwan
Dr. Chan is responsible for the company's Research and Development as well as Business Development. Dr. Chan is a co-founder of ScinoPharm, Executive Vice President of ScinoPharm Taiwan, Ltd.,  and is also the Chairman of ScinoPharm Investments Ltd., a BVI registered company. Prior to co-founding ScinoPharm, Dr. Chan was Vice President of Research and Director of Biotechnology for Syntex. Dr. Chan was also a member of Syntex's Committee on Biotechnology Investments and was a recipient of the distinguished Syntex's Chairman's Science Award. Dr. Chan also serves as a senior advisor to the Taiwanese government, Academia Sinica, and to the Development Center for Biotechnology in Taiwan. Dr. Chan holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and a B.S. in Chemistry from University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Chan has over 60 scientific manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and three published patents

Ren-Der Yang, Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering, Consultant
Dr. Yang has more than 25 years of professional experience in process development, scale-up, pilot plant operation, process design/engineering, technology transfer, process validation and cGMP manufacturing in the biopharmaceutical and biochemical industries. Prior to ScinoPharm, Dr. Yang spent 8 years with Alpha-Beta Technology and 11 years with Pitman-Moore all in areas of developing biopharmaceutical products and processes, plant design and cGMP manufacturing. Earlier Dr. Yang worked for Bayer AG for 3 years and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for 3 years on fermentation and enzymatic process development. Dr. Yang holds a Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and B.S. in Chemical Engineering from National Taiwan University. Dr. Yang has published 9 papers in scientific journals and holds 3 patents covering methods for recovering recombinant proteins.