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= Samantha Du =

Samantha Du is a Chinese entrepreneur, business executive, and scientist. She is the founder of Zai Lab and currently serves as the company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

Early life and education
Du was born in Changchun, China. She holds a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Cincinnati, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in molecular biology and chemistry from Jilin University.

Career
Du started her career in 1994 at Pfizer, where she eventually led a global licensing team. In 2001, after being approached about an opportunity to lead research and development, Du became Chief Scientific Officer at Hutchison China MediTech (Chi-Med) and later founded a subsidiary named Hutchison Medi-Pharma. During her tenure, Chi-Med developed fruquintinib, the first China-discovered and approved cancer drug.

Du left Chi-Med in 2011 and became managing director of healthcare investments at Sequoia Capital China. In 2014, she founded Zai Lab, a Shanghai-based biopharmaceutical company with a focus on infectious disease and oncology. Zai Lab went public in 2017 and is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select, trading under the symbol ZLAB.

Personal life
Du has two sons.