Liang Fang, PhD West Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Dr. Liang Fang earned his B.S degree in Chemistry from Peking University in the year of 1997. He earned his Ph.D. degree in the field of Materials Chemistry from University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2003. After working for two years as in the field of Nano-mechanics and Nano-electronics at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Dr. Fang joined Arkema Inc. in 2005 first as a Material Scientist focused on surface analysis of semiconductors and polymeric materials, and later worked as a Research Scientist focused on fluoropolymer based materials, films and coatings. Dr. Fang joined West Pharmaceutical Services in 2015 as a Senior Research Scientist and since then focused his research on Parenteral Packaging materials and drug delivering devices/components, and their interfacial interaction with Biologics. He was then promoted to Principal Research Scientist position at the same company in Feb 2017. Dr. Fang has first-authored peer reviewed and highly-referred articles in well-known scientific journals such as Surface Science, Langmuir, The Journal of Chemical Physics, and Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Dr. Fang has also given numerous scientific presentations at national meetings such as MRS, ACS and APS national meetings. Dr. Fang was also an invited speaker at 244th American Chemical Society National Meeting.