Dr. Rumin Zhang VP of Discovery, Rafael Pharmaceuticals, USA

Dr. Rumin Zhang is a veteran drug hunter. He is currently Vice President of Discovery at Rafael Pharmaceuticals. He was Head of Research at Eternity Bioscience, Team Lead and Senior Principal Scientist at Merck and Schering-Plough. He has been involved in many drug discovery programs across all major disease areas.... read moreHe is an author or co-author of over 60 papers and patents. He is a key opinion leader for a drug discovery paradigm with dual emphasis on binding kinetics (BK) and pharmacokinetics (PK) in achieving pharmacodynamics (PD). He graduated from Wuhan University in China, came to the United States as a CUSBEA predoctoral fellow and earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry and biophysics from SUNY/Buffalo.