Liming Shao

Liming is a Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, Shanghai, and Director of the Shanghai Center for Drug Discovery & Development. Prior to joining Fudan University, Liming was a senior director at Sepracor Inc./Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. in drug discovery research. For over 30 years, as a medicinal chemist, Liming participated in or led programs that cover a broad range of drug discovery research and development and which have resulted in 20 advanced leads for preclinical development for the treatment of pain, depression, ADHA, schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease and the acceptance by the FDA of 4 IND applications and 1 NDA. Liming’s academic training was at the Tokyo University where he received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University.