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Ms. JC Xu has served as our Chief Scientific Officer since August 2020. Dr. Xu has more than 20 years of experience in oncology drug discovery and development, and more than four years of experience in business development, strategy, and operations in the biopharmaceutical industry in the United States. Prior to joining Adagene, Dr. Xu was head of R&ED China Strategy at Celgene now BMS from 2017 to 2020. Prior to that, Dr. Xu was Director of Strategy & Operations at Celgene Quanticel Research and Director of Biology at Quanticel Pharmaceuticals from 2012 to 2017. Prior to Quanticel, Dr. Xu worked in leadership roles at a number of biopharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, Amgen, and Corixa. Dr. Xu received her M.D. degree from Beijing Medical University (now Peking University Health Science Center) in 1987 and her Ph.D. degree in Immunology from University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1993. She completed her post-doctoral training at DNAX Research Institute (now Merck Palo Alto) in 1996. She is an inventor of more than 120 issued and pending patents and has published more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals.