Dr. Mingde Xia is currently a Senior Director of Johnson & Johnson Innovation Center, and a vice Chair of Asian Society for Innovation & Achievement (A.S.I.A.) across USA and Canada. His responsibility includes science & technology collaboration in Asia with universities, institutes, investors and innovative companies for J & J worldwide pharmaceuticals, medical device / diagnostic products and OTC / consumer business. He earned B.S. in 1984 and M.S. in 1989 and served as a faculty member at China Pharmaceutical University before went to Michigan Tech for his PhD. He completed his postdoctoral research at Yale University and then joined Johnson & Johnson. He has been working as a project leader / project champion since 1999 in the areas of pharmaceutical, medical device / diagnostic and consumer. He is a major inventor / author of many patents / publications, a reviewer for a number of top quality international scientific journals, and an invited speaker for many international pharmaceutical conferences / forums. He received awards from American Chemical Society, Johnson & Johnson and different universities. Some of his research was reported by Chemical & Engineering News of American Chemical Society as the technology breakthrough. He was the President of Sino-American Pharmaceutical Professionals Association and organized many international conferences in USA and Asia.
