Yang Song
Associate Principal Scientist
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AstraZeneca
Yang Song, Ph.D., is an Associate Principal Scientist at AstraZeneca with 10 years of industry experience building end-to-end NGS platforms across Illumina, Element, ONT, and PacBio. He established AZ’s NGS capability, supporting 300+ projects in antibody development and target discovery covering a wide variety of therapeutic areas.
He also developed bespoke assays, and implemented automation and high-throughput long-read sequencing. He earned his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Univ of California Riverside and did his postdoctoral work in antibody engineering in Univ of Pennsylvania.
Sessions
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Right Read for the Right Task: Orchestrating Multiple NGS Platforms Across the Biologics Pipeline04-Jun-2026Innovation Stage