Connect Biopharma Holdings Limited announced the appointment of James Zuie-chin Huang, M.B.A., to its Board of Directors effective immediately. James Huang is the Founder and Managing Partner of Panacea Venture, a significant shareholder of the Company. Mr. Huang has over 30 years of biotech experience and is the Founder and Managing Partner of Panacea Ventures.

Prior to Panacea, Mr. Huang was a Managing Partner at Kleiner Perkins (KPCB) China where he focused on the firm?s life sciences practice, and a managing partner at Vivo Ventures where he led numerous investments in China. He was also the president of Anesiva, a biopharmaceutical company focused on pain-management treatments. Earlier in his career, he held senior roles in business development, sales, marketing, and R&D with Tularik Inc. (acquired by Amgen), GlaxoSmithKline LLC, Bristol-Myers Squibb and ALZA Corp.

(acquired by Johnson & Johnson). Additionally, Mr. Huang serves as a director on the board of directors of a number of companies, including Kindstar Global, TacTiva Therapeutics, TriArm Therapeutics, Chime Biologics, Eos, GT Aperion, Domain, Asia Pacific Medical and XWPharma. He received an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.