Qiusong Tang

Head of Roche Accelerator at Roche

Speaker

Dr. Qiusong Tang leads Roche Accelerator, Roche’s first in-house accelerator globally, to expand Roche‘s external innovation capability in early research and development across pharma and diagnostics, by partnering with scientists, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists to scout and incubate disruptive innovations.

Prior to joining Roche, Dr. Tang has more than 15 years of professional experience across research, strategy consulting, and investment banking in Germany and Singapore, with IQVIA, Roland Berger, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Dr. Tang studied neuroscience in University College London, UK, and obtained his PhD in computational neuroscience from Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, with peer-reviewed publications in Science, Neuron, Nature Protocols, Cell Reports, The Journal of Neuroscience, etc., with more than 600 citations.

Dr. Tang is a member of the Drug Information Association (DIA) Drug Discovery and Translational Medicine Professional Committee, the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks (HKSTP) Incu-Bio Programme Assessment Panel, and the Shanghai Society for Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases, and a reviewer of The Journal of Neuroscience, The Journal of Neurophysiology, and PLoS ONE. Dr.Tang is a 2022 Forbes China Top 100 Outstanding Overseas Returnees.