Acting Chief Executive Officer & Chief Medical Officer
Tzu-I Chao, PhD
Director, Drug Development
Kacy Huang
Director, Clinical Department
Chen-Fu Liu, PhD
Director, R&D Department
Joanne Lo, PhD
Director, Business Development
Jocelyn Lee
Director, Regulatory & Legal Affairs
Benny T. Hu
Mr. Hu is a well-known entrepreneur and also a professional manager with proactive thinking. He has been investing in China since 1996 starting while he was leading China Development Industrial Bank (CDIB). During the period of 1993-2004, he grew the investment portfolio from $ 250MM to $ 3.0Bn, making CDIB one of Asia′s largest investment companies. He expanded business of the bank to the United States, Great Britain, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Australia, and Philippines.
Of the 250 companies invested during tenure, 62 companies had IPOs and 10 were acquired. In 2003, he assumed role as Chairman and Director of Taipei 101, the tallest building in the world when completed in 2004. Mr. Hu is currently Chairman of Senhwa Biosciences, Inc. dedicating to develop first-in-class small molecule drugs used in cancer treatments.
Mr. Hu received a BA from National Taiwan University, an MA from Yale University and an MBA from Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania.
Sarah Chang, CPA
Ms. Chang joined Senhwa in 2013 and is currently Executive Vice President, Chief Finance Officer and Head of Finance and Administration. She brings Senhwa 15 years of experience in finance and accounting. Before joining Senhwa Biosciences, Inc., Ms. Chang was the Vice President of Operating group (CFO&COO) of Hua Nan Investment Trust Corporation, the large mutual fund company in Taiwan. She was Senior Vice President of the Underwriting Department at IBT Securities Co., Ltd. and lead the IPO project and pre-IPO consultation. Ms Chang is a Certified Public Accountant and also worked at Deloitte & Touche.
She graduated with Accounting major from Tunghai University
Jason Huang M.D.
Dr. Huang has been appointed the Acting Chief Executive Officer on January 1, 2025 and he was assumed the Chief Medical Officer position on June 3, 2024. Prior to joining Senhwa Biosciences, he held positions at Janssen as Regional Therapeutic Area Expert, Asia Pacific excluding Japan, concentrating on infectious disease/vaccine and immunology and served as global clinical operation cluster head of Taiwan, Korea and Malaysia. He led the team and participated in over 90 projects in J&J, contributing to drug development endeavors encompassing over a hundred studies. His remarkable leadership and abundant experience in pharmaceutical field had significantly boosted J&J ’s growth.
Apart from Janssen, Dr. Huang also served as the Medical Department Director at Abbott Laboratories Taiwan, and as the CEO and Chief Medical Officer at Ascendo Biotechnology Inc., successfully advancing three primary assets from lead identification to pre-IND status within a 3-year time frame.
Dr. Huang received his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree from Taipei Medical University and a Master in Law from Soochow University.
Tzu-I Chao, PhD
Dr. Chao joined Senhwa in September 2023. He is currently serving as the director of drug development, with a focus on assessing and advancing our drug development projects. Dr. Chao brings a multifaceted experience in drug development, including a solid track record in pre-clinical anti-cancer research, and his oversight role in the oncology clinical trial. His proficiency extends to development, management, and business activities within the industry. He was a core member in the development of a drug formulation for clinical trial applications. He had also been deeply involved in the execution of a co-development agreement for an anti-cancer agent, which bridged two biotech firms from different countries.
Dr. Chao received his Ph.D. degree from University of California, Merced, and pursued his postdoctoral training at University of California, Davis. Prior to joining Senhwa, Dr. Chao held positions at SupremeCure Pharma.
Kacy Huang
Ms. Huang joined the Senhwa team in August 2015. She is currently Head of Clinical Department. Her core responsibilities are the coordination and management of clinical trial development in the US and Taiwan.
Ms. Huang's diverse experience brings rich professional knowledge of pharmacy practices, clinical pharmacy, regulation, clinical trial operations to her role as Head of Clinical Department. Prior to Senhwa, Ms. Huang held positions in regulation affairs and pharmacist at North Cross Pharmacy, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taisho Pharmaceutical (Taiwan), among others.
Ms. Huang graduated with a degree in Pharmacy from the University of Auckland, and is a licensed pharmacist in both Taiwan and New Zealand.
Chen-Fu Liu, PhD
Dr. Liu joined Senhwa in November, 2017 and appointed as Director leading R&D department. He is well experienced in drug discovery team structure, patent strategy, CMC and formulation development in the pharmaceutical industry for more than 15 years.
Dr. Liu obtained his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from National Taiwan University in 2002. Since then, he joined TaiGen Biotechnology as a post-doc fellow in the department of medicinal chemistry and served as an investigator afterwards. After TaiGen, Dr. Liu accumulated his solid knowledge and experience in the industry with GNT Biotech & Medicals Corporation, GNTbm and took in charge for the CMC & formulation development while 2 drug candidates were at the stage of phase 2b of multi-national and multi-centered clinical operation when he worked in CVie Therapeutics Limited. Dr. Liu also was the member of the steering committee of a joint collaboration between CVie and ScinoPharm on identifying a new generation of heart failure treatment.
Dr. Liu was certificated with Winston & Strawn LLP American Patent Law and University of Washington Seattle, school of law, CASRIP 2015 program (MMOT program). Further, Dr. Liu holds 5 PCT patents and many of his scientific publications were highly recognized.
Joanne Lo, PhD
Ms. Lo joined Senhwa in May, 2021 and appointed as Business Development Director, responsible for increasing company revenue by identifying and developing new business opportunities as well as expanding brand presence. Ms. Lo has possessed more than 10 years of experience in pharmaceutical industry with specialty in market research and analysis, product management and business development. She has proven track records in business development of the companies she served including Oneness Biotech Co. Ltd., Abbott Laboratories Services Corp. Taiwan Branch, Lumosa Therapeutics Co., Ltd., etc.
Ms. Lo received her Ph.D. degree in ClinicalPharmacy from NCKU-National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, a BS (Honors) in Biochemistry from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Jocelyn Lee
Ms. Lee joined Senhwa in August 2023 and currently serves as the Director of Legal and Regulatory Affairs. She is responsible for drug registration strategies and brings over 10 years of extensive regulatory experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. Ms. Lee excels in assisting with licensing assessment, regulatory execution and planning, as well as project management for new drugs. She is well-versed in European and US regulatory frameworks. Previously, Ms. Lee worked as a pharmacist at Mackay Memorial Hospital and as the head of the Regulatory Department at TTY Biopharma, demonstrating outstanding performance and achievements.
Ms. Lee graduated from the School of Pharmacy at Taipei Medical University and obtained her master's degree in Medicine from Taipei Medical University. She is a licensed pharmacist in Taiwan.
