Patrick Soon-Shiong

Patrick Soon-Shiong, M.D., a physician, surgeon, scientist, inventor, technologist and philanthropist, has devoted his career to understanding the fundamental biology driving life-threatening diseases and translating these insights into medical innovations with global impact.

He serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NantWorks, an ecosystem of companies with deep understandings in a wide variety of complex industries, from medical science to physics, from data to AI and from communications to mobility.

Dr. Soon-Shiong was born in Port Elizabeth South Africa and received his medical degree at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in 1975. He was the first Chinese intern granted permission to serve his internship at the Johannesburg General Hospital during the period of apartheid. Following a period in the TB clinics in East London, he left to continue his training as a surgeon at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He was appointed Assistant Professor of Surgery and Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCLA, led the development of the California NanoSystems Institute and received support from NASA and NIST to develop next-generation biological materials. While at UCLA, he served as Executive Director of the UCLA Wireless Health Institute and a Professor of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics and Professor of Bioengineering at the California NanoSystems Institute of UCLA. He currently is an Adjunct Professor of Surgery at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a visiting Professor at the Imperial College of London. Dr. Soon-Shiong currently sits on the Board of Councilors at the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering.