United Biomedical, Inc. (UBI) is dedicated to the discovery, development, and commercialization of immunotherapies & vaccines for chronic and infectious diseases and is passionate about delivering science-driven innovation with platform capabilities. Chang Yi Wang is the Chairperson and CSO of United BioPharma (UBP), a member of the UBI group of companies she founded. She discusses her astonishing career, from being the first Asian woman accepted into Rockefeller University’s Ph.D. program back in 1973, the Nobel Laureate professors or board members she was trained under and worked with, how she leveraged her research and management experience at a young age to establish UBI, and her strategy behind keeping proprietary manufacturing technologies in house, among other key areas.
As an inventor, it is very important to have a deep sense for the physical and biomedical characteristics of the molecules we are creating, be that antibodies, long acting proteins or designer vaccines.
