Kai-Xian Chen

Kai-Xian Chen, Ph.D., joined company as Director in August 2018.

From 2007 to 2017, he served as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. From 2005 to 2014, Professor Chen served as President of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. From 2011 to 2018, Professor Chen served as President of the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology. Prior to that, from 1993 to 2004, Professor Chen served as Deputy Director and later, Director of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, or SIMM, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Professor Chen has as also served as Principal Scientist for two National Basic Research Programs by the Ministry of Science and Technology, or MOST. Since 2001, Professor Chen has served successively as the member of the Chief Specialists Board and the deputy chief technical officer of the major science and technology projects “innovative drugs and modernization of traditional Chinese medicine” and “Innovative Drug Research & Development”, where he participated in the organization and promotion of new drug research and development for the PRC’s 10th-13th Five Year Plans. In 1999, Professor Chen was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prior to that, from 1985 to 1988, he conducted postdoctoral research at Institutde Biologie Physico-Chimique in Paris. Professor Chen started his academic career at SIMM as an Associate Professor, where he later reached the level of Full Professor.

Professor Chen received his Master and Ph.D. Degree at the Chinese Academy of Science, and his Bachelor of Science from Fudan University.