Yuan Yuan

Yuan is a Principal for the Eight Roads Ventures team in Beijing and focuses on the therapeutics sector.
WHAT MOTIVATES YOU? Contribute to reducing the pain of mankind, and make people healthier and happier through innovative life science, while appreciating the beauty of biological science from the molecular level.
WHAT’S BEEN THE STEEPEST LEARNING CURVE ON YOUR CAREER JOURNEY SO FAR? Shifting from chemistry to biology, from academics to the pharmaceutical industry, and from science to business.
My career is accompanied by steep learning curves all along, and I couldn’t tell which one is the steepest.
Every time the experience and new knowledge together created a new me.
WHICH TECH TREND ARE YOU MOST EXCITED ABOUT AT THE MOMENT AND WHY? New targets, new modality, new delivery.
WHAT’S THE BEST PIECE OF ADVICE YOU’VE EVER RECEIVED? “My plan in the next 10 years is to cure cancer, what about yours?” - A question from Professor Stuart Schreiber, my Ph.D.
advisor.