Two Immigrants, One Unique Plan For A Biopharma

By Rob Wright, Chief Editor, Life Science Leader
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The American Dream is why the United States is considered the “land of opportunity” and why for centuries immigrants have flocked to our shores seeking their fortunes. Sanjeev Redkar, Ph.D., (India) and Guo-Liang Yu, Ph.D., (China) came to the U.S. in the 1980s. By anyone’s reasonable measure, both have achieved the American Dream. However, their dream as scientists remained at arm’s length. Their desire? Create a pharmaceutical company that leverages the best of what the U.S. and China have to offer toward discovering and developing new oncology therapeutics while using the smallest drug development program possible to do so. This is the story of how the scientific careers of an intrapreneur (Redkar) and an entrepreneur (Yu) came together to cofound and colead Apollomics.