Peter Fan

Dr. Fan has over 20 years of pharmaceutical industry experience in drug discovery and development of small molecules. Dr. Fan has an extensive experience in GPCRs research, and he is a strong believer and advocator for targeting GPCRs-mediated metabolic stress in tumor microenvironment as a better approach to fully unleash anti-tumor immune responses to combat cancer. Prior to Teon, Dr. Fan spent 8 years at Gilead Sciences as a Principal Scientist where he led his group to identify novel targets for cancer, inflammation and cardiometabolic diseases. He initiated several GPCR exploratory programs for cancer immunotherapy and contributed to the discovery of a number of clinical candidates including Selonsertib, an ASK1 inhibitors for fibrotic disease that progressed to phase 3 clinical trials. Before joining Gilead, Dr. Fan served as a Senior Scientist at CV Therapeutics where he played key roles in the discovery and development of new therapies for CNS and cardiometabolic diseases including ANS-6637, an ALDH2 inhibitor that has advanced to Phase 2 clinical trials for drug addiction. Dr. Fan is an inventor of more than 6 Issued US Patents and author/co-author of over 30 peer-reviewed papers.

Dr. Fan received his Ph.D. in Molecular Pharmacology from Peking Union Medical College and completed his postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Francisco.