Anne Cheung is a biochemist with a passion for empowering students, especially women, through education. Anne spent 18 years in the Protein Biochemistry group at Biogen, developing biologics to fight cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, before joining the team at Ribon Therapeutics, a start-up company focused on developing small molecule inhibitors to target cancer. She received a master’s degree in biochemistry from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She serves on the Just-A-Start Biomedical Careers Program Advisory Board and has volunteered for over 15 years in the Biogen Community Lab. She is the co-founder of A2Empowerment, an all-volunteer nonprofit that works mainly with Peace Corps Volunteers to provide high school scholarships and mentoring for young women in Cameroon. She received the Women in the Enterprise of Science and Technology Giving Back Award in 2016 and was named a Fortune Magazine Hero of the 500 in 2015 for her work.