Ed Zhang (Past Speaker)

Ed Zhang is a Vice President of Corporate Development at Boston Pharmaceuticals, where he is leading business and strategic development efforts including sourcing, evaluating and executing partnering transactions.  Boston Pharma represents a new pharmaceutical company model, providing a bridge to value realization for early-stage development programs. With $600M committed capital and veteran drug development team, it offers strategic partnership options to biotech and pharmaceutical companies. Its goal is to enable innovative, under-resourced therapeutics to be developed and unlock the value of life-improving medicines. 

Ed brings broad experience in Business Development, Commercial and R&D with over 15 years in external innovation-focused roles in the biotech and pharma companies.  Prior to Boston Pharma, Ed served as a senior director of Business Development at ImmunoGen and Genzyme/Sanofi including global strategic & business development and commercial operations.  Ed started his professional career as a medicinal chemist with Pharmacia and Abbott Labs.   

Ed received a BS degree in Chemistry from Nanjing University, and a MS degree from Binghamton University as well as an MBA from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.