Yao Fan

Yao Fan has worked in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries since 2007. Yao began their career at Argonne National Laboratory, where they served as a Computational Postdoc Fellow and Postdoc. In 2013, they moved to UCSF as a Research Specialist. In 2016, they held two positions simultaneously: Senior Scientist at Boehringer Ingelheim, where they were responsible for technology development for new biotherapeutic molecules, and Senior Scientist at SRI International, where they headed the structural biology lab and was a biophysicist in the drug discovery pipeline. From 2019 to present, Yao Fan has been at AbbVie, where they have held the roles of Principal Research Scientist I and Senior Scientist III. Yao is currently the Director of Protein Design and Optimization at Tectonic Therapeutic, Inc.

Yao Fan completed their Bachelor's degree in DII from Nanjing University between 1994 and 1998. Yao then went on to earn their MS in Biochemistry from Nanjing University between 1998 and 2000. In 2000, Yao Fan began their PhD in Biophysics and Computational Chemistry at the University of Minnesota, which they completed in 2007. In 2021, Yao Fan obtained a certification in Formulation and Stabilization of Biotherapeutics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Yao is also currently pursuing a certification in Machine Learning from Coursera.