Wu Du

Dr. Wu Du received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, then did postdoc at the Scripps Research Institute. He then joined Merck as a medicinal chemist, and later he joined PTC therapeutics as a medicinal chemist. In 2016 he joined Hinova Pharmaceuticals as SVP in charge of medicinal chemistry. During his career Dr. Wu Du delivered multiple PCCs and clinical compounds, including traditional small molecules and orally available PROTAC compounds. He has a wide range of drug discovery experience and interest, including metabolic diseases, oncology, autoimmune diseases, small molecule drug discovery, targeted protein degradation and degrader-antibody conjugate. He is an author with >30 publications and an inventor with >50 patents and applications.