Chunhui Huang

Senior Director and Head of Chemistry at Mariana Oncology

Speaker

Chunhui Huang is currently the Senior Director and Head of Chemistry at Mariana Oncology, a Novartis company. His research at Mariana focuses on developing novel radiopharmaceuticals for cancer treatment. Before joining Mariana, he briefly worked at Exo Therapeutics in 2022, focusing on small molecule modulators targeting protein-protein interactions. Prior to that, he started his industry career at Merck in 2014 as a medicinal chemist, driving projects across small molecule and peptide modalities in diverse therapeutic areas, including oncology, CNS disorders, diabetes, and obesity. He earned his PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2012 and subsequently completed his postdoctoral training at Scripps Research.