Dr. Chan is currently a Senior Advisor of
Cornerstone Intellectual Property Foundation in Taiwan. He is also serving as
adjunct professor at the Graduate Institute of Intellectual Property, College
of Commerce, National Chengchi University and adjunct professor and advisor at
the Research Center for Drug Discovery, National Yang Ming University in
Taipei, Taiwan. He is also serving as Director of International Affairs,
GloboAsia LLC, Rockville, Maryland.
Dr. Chan co-founded GloboMax LLC, a drug
development organization, in Hanover, Maryland, in July 1997, and served as
consultant for numerous multi-national pharmaceutical biotech firms in the U.S,
Europe and Asia. GloboMax LLC was acquired by ICON, plc. in August 2003, and
Dr. Chan exited the operation. Prior to that, he had joined the FDA in 1995 as
Director of Division of Bioequivalence, Office of Generic Drugs, responsible
for managing and approval of generic drugs in the States. Dr. Chan worked for
Ciba-Geigy Corporation in Ardsley, New York, for 15 years, and held various
senior and management positions. Dr. Chan also had extensive experience in new
and generic drug development in executing preclinical animal studies, bioassay
development, Phases I to VI Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics,
bioavailability, bioequivalence studies, outside contract, regulatory
submission, advanced drug delivery systems in vivo evaluation, and all phases
of new drug development. In addition, he has served as Professor/adjunct
Professor at the School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland at Baltimore between
1996-2009 and also as Adjunct Professor and National Board of Advisor, College
of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota during 1984 - 2006. He has published more
than 150 abstracts and research articles in peer-reviewed journals and over 200
professional presentations. He was elected as Fellow of the American
Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (“AAPS”)
in 1995 for his scientific accomplishments on drug absorption in humans.
Although much of his career has been based in
the United States, Dr. Chan has also assisted Asian pharmaceutical and biotech
companies over the last 14 years. He has organized numerous workshops and
conferences in the PRC, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea. He lectures
frequently in Asia and serves as a scientific advisor for many regulatory
agencies in Asia. Over the last several years, he has successfully assisted
many Asian companies in their technology transfers and licensing deals to and
from the U.S., as well as with numerous regulatory submissions to the FDA.
Dr. Chan obtained his Ph.D. degree in
Pharmaceutics from the University of Minnesota in January 1980.