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Dr. Raghothama Chaerkady is a highly accomplished expert in biochemistry, proteomics and known for his exceptional academic achievements. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry in 1999 and later pursued a post-doctoral training program at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. During his time there, he had the privilege of working in the renowned laboratory of Dr. Akhilesh Pandey, further enhancing his knowledge and skills. One of his most noteworthy achievements was the publication of the ground-breaking paper titled “A Draft Map of the Human Proteome” in Nature in 2014. This seminal work reshaped the landscape of proteomics research especially for biomarker discovery.
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Dr. Liang Zhao received his Ph.D. degree of Analytical Chemistry in 2011 from University of the Pacific. He then joined the School of Medicine in Johns Hopkins University as a faculty member. His research interest has been focusing on tumor- and immuno- metabolomics. He led his team and developed a stable isotope labeling (carbon/nitrogen tracing) technique to explore the metabolic activities of different cell subsets in tumor micro-environment. With this state-of-the-art approach he has developed, a series of surprising differences in metabolic pathways fueling cancer cells and effector T cells were discovered and a representative work was recently published on SCIENCE in 2019. Now his discoveries are being further exploited as a metabolic checkpoint for a variety of novel cancer therapeutics by numerous research institutions and pharmaceuticals.
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Su Zuo is a finance leader with fifteen years of experience in compliance, risk management and public accounting, including corporate finance, accounting, financial reporting, taxation and financial statement auditing. Currently, Su works at Federal Reserve Bank of New York where she supervises large financial institutions in areas of governance, strategy, financial condition, independent risk management, internal controls, and business line management. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). She also has a M.S. in taxation from Baruch College and an MBA from Wharton School of Business with a major concentration in strategic management and entrepreneurship.
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