Dr. Pingkuan Zhang obtained her medical degree at Fudan University, Shanghai, China and was a licensed physician before joining industry in 2003. She worked for Sanofi, AstraZeneca and GSK in medical and R&D roles in China with increasing responsibility before moving to US as medical director for global pivotal studies at GSK in 2014. She designed and delivered life cycle management studies for the China and Asian regional unmet medical needs, and led the delivery of global pivotal studies. She successfully achieved line extension of global compounds in China, as well as new drug registration in US and Europe. She is currently Senior Medical Director, working for Takeda Oncology R&D, based in Boston.