InnoCare Pharma announced that the Company appointed Dr. Sean Zhang as Chief Medical Officer (CMO). Reporting to the Co-founder, Chairwoman and CEO, Dr. Jasmine Cui. Dr. Zhang will be responsible for global clinical development strategy and execution for InnoCare. Dr. Zhang is based in U.S., thus demonstrating InnoCare’s ongoing commitment to globalization. As a physician scientist, Dr. Zhang has more than 30 years working experience in clinical practice, academic research and drug discovery and development. Before joining InnoCare, Dr. Zhang served as CMO and Member of the Board of Directors of Hengrui Therapeutics Inc. (HTI) before his promotion to CEO. HTI is a joint venture between Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine and a leading global investment firm focused on oncology, autoimmune and other unmet medical-need disease areas. Under Dr. Zhang’s leadership, his team has successfully launched two global phase III oncology studies in US and EU and one global phase II study for autoimmune disease, submitted more than ten U.S. FDA Investigational New Drug applications (INDs) and conducted a number of successful FDA meetings on several major development programs. Before HTI, Dr. Zhang assumed increasing responsibilities in clinical development at GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Johnson and Johnson. He also worked as staff gastroenterologist and clinical investigator at 301 Hospital in Beijing in his early career.