Chief Technology Officer and Global Head
Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering
MedImmune
United Kingdom
Herren received his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the National Taiwan University and his doctorate in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He completed his postdoctoral training at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. In 2006, Herren received the Senior Technology Fellow Emerald Honors award. He is also an inventor on 43 granted patents and 50 patent applications related to antibody/protein therapeutics and technologies. This is in addition to more than 60 manuscript publications.
Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, Half-life extension technology (YTE), bi-specifics/multi-specifics, protein scaffolds, antibody-drug conjugates, Blood-Brain-Barrier technology, peptide therapeutics, phenotypic screening and most recently mass-spec proteomics and non-natural amino acid technology