ShiYin Foo

Shi Yin brings 20 years of experience both as a practicing physician and as a catalyst in advancing innovative new programs through the various stages of drug development. She has expertise in a breadth of disease areas, including cardiorenal, immunology/inflammation and rare diseases, as well as an interest in novel and adaptive clinical trial designs.

Prior to joining Cydan, Shi Yin was the chief medical officer of Cardioxyl Pharmaceuticals and a translational medicine expert at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, where she was responsible for the establishment and development of multiple novel programs in heart failure and the cardiorenal space, including rare disease indications. Shi Yin is the founder of Orchard Biomedical Consulting, which serves a variety of biotech and pharma partners in broad disease indications.

She is acting chief medical officer for Cydan NewCos, Imara and Tiburio Therapeutics, which launched in 2016 and 2019, respectively.

Shi Yin received her MD and PhD in immunology from Stanford University, and a MMSc in clinical science from the Clinical Investigator Training Program at Harvard Medical School. She was clinical faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and a dual Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and in Cardiology.