Principal Scientist
J-Star Research Inc.
I am currently a Principal Scientist/Drug Product Development at J-Star Research Inc, in NJ, USA. As a lead scientist, I am leading and performing many projects for oral and injectable delivery dosage formulation development. Previously I was the President and Chief Scientific Officer of Syntekabio USA Inc., bringing extensive overall drug development experience in the Pharmaceutical field into the AI-based drug discovery biotechnology company. I was also a senior scientist in Lipocine Inc. who led scientific teams of pre-clinical & clinical trial drug formulation development, pre-clinical/clinical trial data analysis/management, intellectual property development, publications, and R&D as well. I earned my PhD degree in Physical Chemistry from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. After graduating with my PhD degree in 2011, I started a postdoctoral fellowship on mass spectrometry instrumentation at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC in Canada.