Jason Wang

Senior Associate

2024 - Current

Principal

2023 - 2024

Senior Associate

2021 - 2023

Director of Business Development

2016 - 2021

• Completed one licensing agreement, leading to the creation of a biotech company (Hepla Sciences) with $2 MM of seed capital committed by Fortress Biotech and our collaborators. Formed a scientific advisory board composed of leading KOLs. • Structured a research collaboration between Hepla and a top 10 pharmaceutical company to test our compound with their drug candidate, to identify synergy and create a competitive advantage by demonstrating a rational combination approach with improved efficacy, and a high degree of safety. • Conducted primary research through interviews with key opinion leaders (KOLs), former FDA officials, and industry experts to validate scientific, regulatory and commercial aspects of the investment thesis. • Responsible for project management pre and post deal. This involves the planning and execution of development strategies, including scientific rationale, pre and clinical development, budget, regulatory, and technical strategies. Worked with consultants and contractors for regulatory, IP, commercial, CMC, toxicology, DMPK assessment. • Developed automated search and evaluation software in Python programming language to filter for opportunities of interest. Identified hundreds of new opportunities with several progressing to deal negotiations. • Developed an automated market modeling app in Python programming language, which streamlined market sizing with minimal inputs from the user. Included interactive features to enable scenario modeling (i.e bear/base/blue sky), automated NPV calculation, and storage of models. Enabled ranking of various opportunities based on their market potential. • Built market models (excel), performed competitive research, and created investment decks for our CEO which were presented at quarterly board meetings. • Supervised two analysts who assisted me by conducting scientific literature and market research.

Educational Consultant

2011 - 2014

Advised students applying for private school, college, and medical schools >Taught students one on one to prepare for the SSAT, SAT, and the MCAT standardized tests >Edited personal statements and conducted mock interviews >Contacted schools to help students apply for financial aid

Summer Fellow

2013 - 2013

Accepted to work in the laboratory of Howard Hughes Investigator Dr. James Bardwell > Analyzed major sites of interaction between proteins and chaperones which aid proteins to fold into their proper functional conformations. > Successfully wrote and presented research summary at the Howard Hughes West Coast Kickoff Meeting in San Francisco in 2013

Senior Research Technician

2010 - 2012

> Analyzed Denderimer nanoparticles as a plateform to develop chemotherapeutics specific to tumor cells, minimizing off target adverse effects >Reduced drug effect variability by determining the best drug synthesis protocol for dendrimer chemotherapeutics >Tested nanotechnology device for improving western blotting, one of the most common microbiology lab techniques. > Co-authored a PLoS article (Profiling Inflammatory Responses with Microfluidic Immunoblotting 2013)

MCAT Instructor

2009 - 2011

Online and Classroom instructor for Standardized testing >Selected to teach Kaplan Summer Intensive upon recommendation by my center director in Beirut, Lebanon >Taught 25 students in classrooms. Subjects included college level physics, chemistry, biology, and critical reasoning >Tutored students 1 on 1 to prepare for the MCAT. Edited personal statements for private school, college and medical school applications.

Americorps Vista

2009 - 2010

Serving Rochester, NY area residents over the age of 18 who were 150% below the poverty line >Developed a program to teach computer literacy in Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, and Excel >Classes consisted of 25-40 adults. Classes ran for 3 months. Upon completion, students receive a refurbished computer and a interview with Sutherland Global Services >Program lasted for 365 days