Dr. Benjamin T. Lee, Pharm.D
Managing Director, Comprehensive Drug Enterprises Ltd (CDE) and Head of Research, Athenex Innovative HK Ltd.
Benjamin has a long career in pharmaceutical product and medical device development and commercialization. Founded in 2005, CDE is an award winning, technology-driven company that provides innovative solutions for drug delivery systems in the Hong Kong Science Park, it has products from the pre-clinical to clinical stage of development. Benjamin’s leadership roles also include General Manager of Athenex Hong Kong Innovative Ltd, which focus on formulation development to support the Athenex global R&D platform; the Director of group subsidiaries on medical devices: MJ Medical Gel Systems (Hong Kong) Co. Ltd. and the MJ Medical Devices (ChongQing) Co. Ltd. which focus on topical wound care products. He also served as the member in the Intellectual property Assessment Committee of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University since 2016. Benjamin received his Pharmacy Doctorate degree from the University of Kentucky, College of Pharmacy. Subsequently, he trained under Drug Development and Clinical Research Fellowships at the Glaxo Wellcome and the University of North Carolina, School of Pharmacy. Upon completion of his Fellowships, Dr. Lee joined Glaxo Wellcome as a Research Scientist in respiratory diseases, rising to group manager in Clinical Development Center at the GlaxoSmithKline prior to form CDE in 2005 in Hong Kong. Since 2015, CDE is a subsidiary of the Athenex Inc (ATNX), a Nasdaq listed Biopharmaceutical company.