Serial Entrepreneur and Drug Developer: Co-founder/CSO of AKSO Bio
(2016-2024)
Led Development of 3 Biologic Drugs
One in Phase III
One Cleared IND with $75M Licensing Deal
One Partnered Preclinical
Filed and Managed 200+ Patent Applications from 15 Patent Families
Postdoctoral Scholar-Instructor,
Stanford School of Medicine
Authored 20+ Publications, Multiple FirstAuthor in Top-tier
Journals including Nature Review Drug Discovery {IF 122.7)
Jimmy Xu, Ph.D.
CTO
Expert in Protein Engineering, Computational Drug Discovery and
Al/ML
Creator of Neomera's Al-guided screening platform and algorithms
M.S.E. & B.S. Biomedical Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D. in Bioengineering,
Stanford University
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Stanford School of Medicine
Yi Lu, MBA
CFO
Serial Entrepreneur: CEO of QTC (2013- 2024)
Extensive experience in Pain Therapeutics: Led the development of
an innovative medical device from inception through completion of
Phase III clinical trials for acute pain
Former Investor Turned Entrepreneur: Previously with
Boston Consulting Group, Bain Capital, and Madrone Capital
Partners
MBA, Stanford GSB
Pain Program Advisors
Peter Schmidt, MD. MSC
Clinical Advisor
Clinical Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, and Pain Medicine,
Stanford School of Medicine
Lead, Stanford Cancer Pain Center
Chief Medical Officer, Portal Therapeutics
Frank Bosmans, Ph.D.
Scientific Advisor
Professor, Pharmacology Department at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
(VUB)
Previously Faculty Member at John Hopkins University and NIH
Pioneer in Navl.9 Biology
First Scientist to have Developed and Published Robust Navl.9
Expression and Functional Assays (Science Advances, May, 2025)
Wing Hung Wong, Ph.D.
AI Platform Technology Advisor
Stephen R. Pierce Family Goldman Sachs Professor in Science and
Professor of Statistics, Boimedical Data Science, Standford
University
Pioneer in Bayesian Computation, introduced revolutionary
sampling-based-algorithms.
COPSS Distinguished Academy of Science in 2009 and Academia Sinica
in 2010
Founding member of the Hong Kong Academy of Science since 2015
