Kin Sing (Ray) Lam, Ph.D. - VP of Process Development
Dr. Ray Lam comes to MBI as an experienced and successful leader of multi-disciplinary teams of scientists in natural product discovery and development. He has a proven track record of advancing projects through developmental stages to industrial production. Prior to joining MBI, Ray was Vice President, Microbiology and Industrial Fermentation at Nereus Pharmaceuticals in San Diego, CA where he designed and developed the Marine Microbial Drug Discovery program.
Before that, he was a Senior Principal Scientist in the Natural Products Department at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in Connecticut.
Dr. Lam received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada and his M.A. and B.A. in Chemistry from the State University College of New York, Plattsburgh, New York.
He is a long-standing member of several professional associations including the American Chemical Society, the American Society for Microbiology and the Society for Industrial Microbiology. He has 27 issued US patents and 73 published scientific papers, reviews and book chapters.