Hao Wu, Ph.D.

Scientist 4, Peptide Therapeutics at Genentech

Speaker

Dr. Hao Wu is currently Scientist 4 at Genentech, Departments of Early Discovery Biochemistry, Peptide Therapeutics Division. He has been involved in many projects to improve the drug-like properties of peptides, using rational design, structure-guided design, and combinatorial chemistry approach. Before joining Genentech, Dr. Wu had postdoctoral training at The Scripps Research Institute – Florida using peptidomimetics targeting intracellular targets, and obtained his Ph.D. in Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, training in organic chemistry, developed small molecule microarray platform for PPI inhibitor discovery.