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Join the Boston Biotech Meetup Group for Biotech new drug discovery: Academia vs. Government vs. Industry & USA vs. China.

Monday, February 8th at 6:30 p.m. at MassBio, One Cambridge Center, 9th Floor.

No registration necessary-- this event is open to MassBio members and non-members.

Speaker: Grace Wong, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, ActoKine Therapeutics

Grace has spent her entire career on biologics, specifically on cytokines, at Genentech, Millennium, AstraZeneca and Serono. Her PhD project was on biologics at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia. Her post-doc projects were also on biologics with Dr. David Goeddel at Genentech. She continued working on biologics in a variety of diseases at Genentech, Millennium, AstraZeneca and Serono.

Grace successfully shepherded basic research discoveries to product development at Genentech in 1993 and was appointed Head of Apoptosis Research at Millennium in 1996 for discovery of cytokine inducible drug resistance genes using functional genomics. Grace joined AstraZeneca as Section Head of Molecular Genetics for discovery of cytokine inducible genes in Alzheimer's disease.  At Serono, Grace was Director of Cytokine Genomics for discovery of novel cytokines in Women's diseases. Her work with biologics have made her valuable to biotech and pharma, receiving also job offers from Glaxo, Biogen, Human Genome Sciences and Cell Therapeutics, in addition to the positions she was able to accept.

Grace has been invited to present at 160 international conferences including the Nobel Symposium in Sweden in 1994. Grace received 13 scholarships and 5 Recognition Awards from Genentech. She published 89 papers and 27 patents (11 issued). Some of her publications (3 Nature, 1 Science, 3 Cell, 5 PNAS and 7 J. Immunol) have received 300-1000 citations. Grace founded a small biotech company "ActoKine Therapeutics www.actokine.com" to discover biologics for radioprotection and prevention of a board spectrum of viral infection (www.actokine.com). Grace also founded Student Vision (www.studentvision.org) and Nobel-Pauling (www.pauling.us) to inspire and help students of all ages in biotechnology.