Zhiwei Wang joined BeiGene in April 2011 and is Senior Vice President, Research Head of Chemistry. Prior to joining BeiGene, he was Associate Director of Medicinal Chemistry at BioDuro. Dr. Wang previously worked at Novartis in San Diego as a Research Scientist in the Medicinal Chemistry Department. He also worked as Senior Scientist at Ionis Pharmaceuticals in San Diego.

Dr. Wang obtained his Ph.D degree in organic chemistry from Lanzhou University, and completed his postdoctoral training at Vanderbilt University. He is the author or co-author, and inventor or co-inventor, of more than 50 publications and patents.