Chaoyang Dai

VP of Operations, Acebright, Inc.

Dr. Chaoyang Dai is the Vice President of Operations at Acebright, Inc. in Bedford, MA. He is responsible in managing its R&D, sales & marketing, and business development activities. Previously, Dr. Dai had 10 years of drug discovery experience in Neogenesis, Schering-Plough, and Merck, working on drug targets of oncology, inflammation, antiviral, and Alzheimer’s diseases. Dr. Dai received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Chemistry from Wuhan University and Ph.D. from University of Waterloo respectively, and conducted postdoctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Dai served as President (2010-2011) of the Chinese-American BioMedical Association (CABA) and is currently a board member.