Boliang Lou, Ph.D.
Chairman & CEO
Dr. Boliang Lou is a co-founder, Chairman of the board and CEO of Pharmaron. Under his direction, Pharmaron has transformed from a chemistry service provider into an end-to-end, fully integrated and global life science service platform in twenty years.
Prior to founding Pharmaron 2003, Dr. Lou served as the Research Section Head of Chemistry (1998-2001) and Director of Research (2001-2002) at Helios Pharmaceuticals (later as Advanced SynTech) in Louisville, Kentucky. He worked as a Research Scientist at Cytel Corporation and Ontogen Corporation in San Diego, California (1994-1997).
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 his post-doctoral research with Professor Stephen Hanessian at the University of Montreal (1990-1994).