Yen Ting Chen, PhD

Yen Ting joined PeptiDream in May 2022 and brings over 15 years of experience in business development, finance and drug discovery to the team. Prior to PeptiDream, Yen Ting served as Vice President at Locust Walk, a global life science transaction firm where he mainly supported licensing deals between companies in the US/EU and Japan/China. Prior to Locust Walk, Yen Ting worked at Credit Suisse as an equity research analyst covering the Japanese biotechnology and generics sectors, and at the Boston Consulting Group as an analyst in the Health Care practice area focusing on R&D and business development-related topics in the biopharmaceutical sector.

Yen Ting began his professional career as a medicinal chemist at the Scripps Research Institute, Florida, and worked on drug discovery programs in various disease areas including alcohol addiction, Chagas’ disease, and glaucoma. Yen Ting received his PhD in Organic Chemistry from Brown University and his AB in Chemistry from Princeton University.