Dr. He Ruyi (何如意) was appointed as a Director on May 11, 2020 and redesignated as an executive Director on May 22, 2020 and appointed as the chief medical officer and head of clinical research of our Company on May 11, 2020 and is primarily responsible for the management of the clinical needs, medical support, clinical pharmacology, registrational compliance, drug safety, clinical researches and statistics of our Group. Dr. He possesses more than 33 years of experience in medical and pharmaceutical industries in the PRC and the U.S. and nearly 20 years of unique policy-making and managerial experience at the FDA in the U.S. and the NMPA in China. He has been the chief scientist of healthcare and medicine (医药健康首席科学家) at SDIC Fund Management Co., Ltd. (国投招商投资管理有限公司) to advise on investment decisions in the healthcare and medicine field since October 2018. From July 2016 to October 2018, he was the chief scientist at the Center for Drug Evaluation, the China Food and Drug Administration (currently known as the National Medical and Pharmaceutical Administration) (国家食品药品监督管理总局药品审评中心), where he was responsible for improving its drug evaluation and approval process and supervising assessments related to the safety, effectiveness and quality of innovative drugs. He served in various capacities from medical officer to medical team leader and the acting deputy director in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. from 1999 to 2016. Dr. He was a doctor of internal medicine at Howard University Hospital and Affiliated Hospitals in Washington, District of Columbia, the U.S. between June 1996 and June 1999, and a visiting fellow at the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. between March 1988 and June 1996. He served as a doctor of internal medicine at the First Hospital of China Medical University (中国医科大学附属第一医院) from July 1986 to March 1988.

Dr. He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in medicine from China Medical University (中国医科大学) in August 1983 and July 1986, respectively, and a certification of postgraduate medical education in internal medicine from Howard University in the U.S. in June 1997. He is certified as a diplomate in internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine and licensed to practise medicine and surgery in West Virginia, the U.S. since 1999 and 2015, respectively. Dr. He has served as the independent director of Suzhou Zelgen Biopharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. (苏州泽璟生物制药股份有限公司), a company listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (stock code: 688266), since February 2019.

Dr. He’s awards and recognitions include a Serotonin (5-HT) Receptor Against Class – AC team excellence award by the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research of the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. in September 2012, FDA group recognitions awarded by the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. in July and October 2013, and a leveraging collaboration award from the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. in September 2014. Dr. He was also recognized for his outstanding service of more than 25 years in developing scientific education training activities for staff in Center for Drug Evaluation and Research of the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. in May 2015.