Dr. Shi started Atom Bioscience in March of 2012. He has served as Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman since January of 2015. Previously, he had served as our Chief Executive Officer and President since March of 2012. From 1999 to 2011, Dr. Shi served in various positions of increasing responsibility at Genelabs Technologies Inc. and Metabolex Inc. He has worked on the new drug discovery and development on the area of anti-cancer, HCV, diabetes, gout, and NASH for more than 28 years. He was leading the new drug design, organic synthesis, patent application, preclinical studies, clinical trials, financing, ect. Dr. Shi authored 43 patents and 26 of them were from Atom Bioscience. He published 13 peer reviewed papers from his Ph.D. and postdoctoral work. Dr. Shi received his Ph.D. in Medicinal and Organic Chemistry from the University of Nottingham in 1995, and was the Postdoctoral Fellow in Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin from 1996 to 1998.