Boliang Lou, Ph.D.

 

Dr. Boliang Lou co-founded Pharmaron in 2003. Previously he served as the Director of Research at Advanced SynTech (AST), managed a multi-discipline team working in the area of drug discovery, combinatorial, high throughput medicinal and computational chemistry. At AST, he was responsible for all the collaboration projects with various pharmaceutical, biotech companies and academic institutions around the world.

Dr. Lou received his M. S. degree (1986) and Ph.D. in organic chemistry (1989) under the supervision of Professor Li-Xin Dai at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC). He did post-doctoral research with Professor Stephen Hanessian at the University of Montreal (1990-1994). Dr. Lou then joined Cytel Corporation as a Staff Scientist in 1994. He began working on combinatorial chemistry after joining Ontogen Corporation in 1996. One year later, he moved to Helios Pharmaceutical (later as Advanced SynTech) as Staff Researcher II and became the Research Section Head of Chemistry in 1998 and the Director of Research in 2002.