Pharmaceutical Analysis, Drug Discovery and Designing Chemistry

Yite Robert Chou is the Head of High Throughput Analytical Core Facility and the Group Leader of Force Degradation and Impurity Profi ling group in the Biologics and Vaccines Formulation at Merck & Co. Inc. Before joining Merck in 2015, he spent almost 10 years in the Process Development department at Amgen. He has over thirteen years of experience in discovering and developing biotherapeutic products from pre-IND to BLA/commercial stages. Dr. Chou received a B.Sc. degree in Applied Chemistry from Tamkang University, Taiwan, R.O.C., and Ph.D. degree in Biological Chemistry from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.