Wenge Zhong

Dr. Zhong is a veteran drug hunter with extensive scientific and leadership experiences. Prior to cofounding Regor, he was Senior Director of Discovery at Amgen where he worked for a total of 18 years. He led small molecule discovery programs across therapeutic areas such as cancer, CNS diseases and metabolic disorders and delivered numerous preclinical and clinical candidates. At the Amgen Asia R&D Center in Shanghai, China, he championed the establishment of a world-class center of excellence on GPCR research and discovery, built a discovery team of 30 scientists in structural biology, modeling and computational chemistry, single domain antibody discovery, protein expression and DEL technologies. Dr. Zhong had a successful track record of collaborations during his career with CROs and academic institutions and served as an industry mentor to graduate students at various universities in the US and in China. Dr. Zhong received his B.S. degree from Peking University and his Ph.D degree in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Scripps Research Institute.