Women in Leadership Advisory Member

Dr. Liang Schweizer

Active Term: 09/2022 - 09/2023

Areas of Expertise

• Pillars of Positivity
  
• Advocacy, Actions & Accountability
  
• Driving Ideas, Intellectual Growth & Transformation
  
• Organizational Leadership & Cultural Diversity

CEO

HiFiBio, Inc.

Liang Schweizer is the founder, Chairperson and CEO of HiFiBiO Therapeutics, an emerging multinational biotherapeutics company with unique strengths in immune modulation and single-cell science. Previously, she co-founded Harbour Biomed as its CSO and successfully transformed an antibody platform company into a drug discovery and development enterprise. Before launching her entrepreneurial career, Liang was Head of Asian Cancer Research at Sanofi and Director of Lead Discovery and Optimization at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company.
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Liang Schweizer graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), majoring in Biology. She received her Master’s degree in Microbial Engineering at the University of Minnesota with a Minor in Chemical Engineering. Liang earned her Ph.D in Molecular Biology from the University in Zurich, Switzerland. Her postdoctoral training was with Dr. Harold Varmus, a Nobel Laureate, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), New York.

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