Dr. Ye graduated with his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Minnesota. Prior to working at Viva Biotech, Dr. Ye was a Senior Research Fellow at Merck.He has over 20 years of drug discovery experience with 30 published papers and 35 patents. He guided and participated in nine cancer, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular, and endocrine clinical drug candidates. Two are currently in the IND stage, one in phase III trials, and one has been approved for the US market.