Yingju Xu
Merck & Co., Inc, USA
Biography
Yingju Xu has attended Nanjing University, China, receiving her BA and MS in Organic Chemistry. She then conducted Graduate Research in the laboratory of Professor Soctt J Miller at Boston College, MA, earning her PhD in 2007. She joined the Department of Process Chemistry at Merck in 2007. She has 10 years of process development experience on various drug candidates. Her research experience at Merck focuses on discovery of innovative approaches to access drug candidate via low-cost and sustainable processes, design and development of robust green manufacturing processes for target drug candidates, as well as late stage process development to support filing and commercialization.