PPD Names Chief Scientific Officer of BioDuro

Jasmine (Jisong) Cui, Ph.D., has been appointed chief scientific officer of BioDuro, a PPD Company. Dr. Cui will provide scientific leadership to BioDuro’s integrated drug discovery services across a range of disease areas and expand its use of novel technologies for small and large molecules and stem cells and imaging.

“With more than 15 years of drug discovery experience, Jasmine’s leadership will be valuable to our clients as we continue to build therapeutic expertise and to deliver integrated services beginning at lead generation through Phase 0,” said Andreas Tschirky, Ph.D., leader of BioDuro. “Her proven expertise in the pharmaceutical industry will help us deliver innovation in areas such as medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, discovery biology, drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics (DMPK), and I am pleased to welcome her to our company.”

Dr. Cui previously served as vice president and head of drug discovery and translation for a newly established biotech company, where she provided leadership for project portfolio and operations from preclinical to Phase II studies. Prior to that, she spent 14 years at Merck Research Laboratories, where she held positions of increasing responsibility.