Jesper Lau
所属公司：Novo Nordisk A/S， Copenhagen， Denmark
公司职位：Vice President
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创业领域：生物医疗
所属公司：Novo Nordisk A/S， Copenhagen， Denmark
公司职位：Vice President
所在地区：
创业领域：生物医疗
Jesper Lau， vice president of Novo Nordisk A/S， Copenhagen， Denmark. Dr. Jesper Lau studied biology and chemistry at University of Southern Denmark. After receiving his Ph.D. degree in 1990 and a research visit stay at Dr. B. Trost’s laboratory in Standford University （U.S.A.）， he joined Novo Nordisk. In 1995 he became responsible for implementing combinatorial chemistry strategy and in 2002 he established a new department to improve therapeutic properties of peptides and proteins. Dr. Lau has a broad experience in both small molecule and protein drug discovery. He was instrumental to the successful development of once weekly glucagon-like peptide-1 and is the first inventor of semaglutide.
