Wenyan (david) Shen BSc, PhD

Dr. Shen is a leading expert with more than 20 years of experience in the antibody and therapeutic protein field, and has a proven record of advancing pipelines from discovery to proof-of-concept in clinical stage to registration. Dr. Shen joined NGM in 2013 and was most recently Vice President, Global Head of Biologics Development at TEVA Pharmaceuticals and managed the innovative biologics, biobetters and biosimilars portfolio across therapeutic areas. During his tenure, several biologics/biosimilars were successfully approved, including TBO-Filgrastim by FDA and Lipegfilgrastim by EMA. Prior to TEVA, Dr. Shen was Executive Director, Biologics Research and GlycoFi at Merck where he oversaw overall biologics pipeline from discovery to preclinical development.
His professional career started at Amgen where he held positions of increasing responsibility, including site-head for the Protein Sciences Department in San Francisco, and was critical in advancing more than eight antibody drug candidates from research to clinical development and regulatory approval, including evolucumab (anti-PCSK9), romosozumab (anti-sclerostin) and denosumab (anti-RANKL). In addition, he has developed the mammalian full IgG display technology that is now widely used by the antibody field. Dr. Shen graduated from East China University of Science and Technology and received a Ph.D. from University of Toronto. He completed post-doctoral training at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.