About Us

Our values

1. Begin with the end in mindReach every patient

2. Bold in innovationRigorous in evidence

3. Open and inclusiveAcross disciplines

4. Equal partnershipSeamless collaboration

Founding team

1. 

   Dr. Hongtao Yu

   Co-founder & Chairman

   Co-founded Westlake Pharmaceuticals in 2020 and serves as Chairman. He is an internationally renowned cell biologist and currently serves as Dean of the School of Life Sciences at Westlake University.

   Holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Peking University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, and carried out postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School. He has served as assistant professor, associate professor and professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and as the Serena S. Simmons Distinguished Chair, while also serving as an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).

   Elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012, and elected to the board of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America in 2018.

2. 

   Dr. Hu Qi

   Co-founder & Director

   Co-founded Westlake Pharmaceuticals in 2020 and serves as a Director. He is a Distinguished Research Fellow at Westlake University.

   Holds a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from Peking University, a master’s degree in medicinal chemistry and a Ph.D. in biology from Tsinghua University, and carried out postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Francisco, supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.

3. 

   Dr. Jing Huang

   Co-founder & Director

   Co-founded Westlake Pharmaceuticals in 2020 and serves as a Director. He is a Distinguished Research Fellow at Westlake University and a leading figure in computer-aided drug design (CADD) and AI-aided drug design (AIDD) in China.

   Provides scientific advisory consulting to AI pharmaceutical companies such as XtalPi and DP Technology, as well as to leading internet companies including ByteDance, Baidu (BioMap) and Tencent, and collaborates with them on related research.

   Holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in physics from Tsinghua University and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Basel, Switzerland, and carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and at the NIH/NHLBI.