Wenliang Dong, Ph.D.

Chief Operational Officer (COO)

Wenliang is Chief Operational Officer at ORCA Therapeutics BV. He has held various key positions at ORCA in R&D, manufacturing, (pre-)clinical development and project management. He has managed internal and external teams in the development of ORCA’s lead product, ORCA-010. As COO he will manage all operational activities related to the development of ORCA’s technology from R&D to clinical development.

Wenliang has worked at Sanquin Plasma Products BV as Project leader at the CMO division and as member of the management team of Pharmaceutical services. He holds a PhD in Medical Microbiology from the university of Leiden, During his PhD he has worked at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg (Germany) and at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon (France). He has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications in international journals and book chapters.