Jane S. Young

Dr. Young is a medical doctor with over 20 years of clinical, laboratory, research, and product development experience. She has extensive academic experience in cell biology, molecular biology, protein science, biochemistry, and animal models. Prior to joining Celltex, she served as the senior scientist and associate research scientist for PPD Inc., a leading global contract research organization, where she expanded her industry GMP experience doing drug analysis. Dr. Young has a track record of performing and leading projects in areas of genetic mutation and deletion analysis, molecular hematology, FISH probe design and analysis, recombinant protein and kinetics analysis, development and optimization of laboratory assays, cell sorting and flow cytometry analysis, drug trials, and animal models. She has demonstrated her comprehensive knowledge through chapters in two scientific books and 25 publications she has authored. Dr. Young graduated from Zhejiang University School of Medicine in China and has practiced internal medicine for four years. She received her Ph.D. in 1999 from Lund University in Sweden. Dr. Young completed a postdoctoral fellowship and served as a research specialist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology.