Eric Xu
Founder, CEO
Ph.D. from Duke University/UT Southwestern Medical Center, postdoc from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Senior Investigator at Glaxo Wellcome and GSK
Distinguished Investigator/Professor at Laboratory of Structural Sciences, Director of Center for Structural Biology and Drug Discovery, Van Andel Institute, USA Director, Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Director, Center for Structure & Function of Drug Targets, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Focused on the structures and drug discovery of nuclear receptors (NRs) and G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs)
H. Eric XU and his team have solved 16 NR structures (Total 48 NRs in humans)
Publications of > 260 SCI papers, 33 papers in Cell, Nature, Science, with > 30,000 citations n> 20 patents, including the targets such as PPARα, PPARγ/RXR, GPCRs
Participated in the development of blockbuster drugs including Advair, AVANDIA (Rosiglitazone)
Development of a next-generation asthma drug PA159 (Palo Alto, Phase 2), CS0159 for NASH/PBC/PSC/IBD; and an anti-SARS-CoV-2 small-molecule drug VV116 in Phase 3