Y. Alexander Wu, Ph.D.

Director

Dr. Wu has been a director of CASI since April 2013.

From 2006 to 2017, Dr. Wu was co-founder and chief executive officer of Crown Bioscience, Inc., a drug discovery and preclinical research organization in the oncology sector with over 600 employees, which was acquired by JSR for over $400 million in 2017. Before co-founding Crown Bioscience, Dr. Wu was chief business officer of Starvax International Inc., a biopharmaceutical R&D company focusing on the development of novel therapeutic drugs for the treatment of infectious disease and cancer. Prior to Starvax, he was the head of Asian Operations with Burrill & Company, a life science venture capital and merchant bank. Dr. Wu also co-founded and was chief operating officer of Unimicro Technologies, a life science instrumentation company. He started his career with Hoffmann-La Roche, where he was manager of business development and strategic planning.

Dr. Wu obtained his B.S. in biochemistry from Fudan University, China, a M.S. in biochemistry from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in molecular cell biology and MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.