Lance Laing

Lance’s career spans more than 20 years in drug discovery research and technology development. He received his doctorate in biophysics and biochemistry from Johns Hopkins University and completed a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship at Washington University Medical School. He has received 19 U.S. patents. His drug discovery research career began at Scriptgen/Anadys Pharmaceuticals (purchased by Novartis), where he worked under Professor Peter Kim, the recently retired president of Merck Research Laboratories. Most recently, Lance served as an executive director for an international drug discovery and development company.

Lance has built a world-class science team that includes drug discovery, cell signaling, high-throughput drug screening, molecular oncology and human primary cell culture scientists.