Yifang Huang

Greater Philadelphia Area United States

Medicinal Chemist

Medical / Health Care / Pharmaceuticals

Accomplished organic and medicinal chemist with over 13 years of research experience in multiple therapeutic areas in large pharmaceutical companies.Solved a wide variety of synthetic problems. Documented success on designing and developing novel series of enzyme inhibitors by structure based drug design, and fragment-based drug discovery approach. Scaled up over 30 project lead and reference compounds. Key contributor and project mover to the advancement of many research programs. Significant contributions to the development of clinic candidate of anticonvulsant and pre-clinic candidate of MC5 agonist. Co-inventor of 8 issued and 2 pending patents in different areas and author of 17 pub...