Qi Hu, Ph.D. co-founded Westlake Pharmaceuticals in 2020 and serves as its Director.

Dr. Hu is a principal investigator in the School of Life Sciences at  Westlake University and the Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Structural Biology of Zhejiang Province.

Dr. Hu received his bachelor’s degree in pharmaceutical sciences and master’s degree in medicinal chemistry from Peking University. He then joined Tsinghua University and received his Ph.D. in biology.

In 2015, he joined Prof. Kevan Shokat’s lab in the University of California, San Francisco for postdoctoral training. Dr. Hu was awarded the prestigious Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2015.