Weon-Kyoo You, PhD

Vice President and Head of R&D at ABL Bio

Speaker

Weon-Kyoo You received his PhD majored in Biochemistry at Yonsei University in 2004. Then, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at UC San Francisco, and as a researcher at Sanford-Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute from 2004 to 2012. He successfully performed several research projects and published many peer-reviewed papers in the field of tumor-induced angiogenesis and tumor microenvironments. After he came back to Korea, he joined at the Hanwha Chemical, R&D center as a principal research scientist to discover and develop a novel bispecific antibody by March, 2016. Currently he is working as the R&D Head at a startup biotech company, ABL Bio, Inc. and leading and managing new antibody-based drug development projects