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Sheng Wang

Founder

Now Founder, Zelixir

Latest on AI4S.fyiTimeline · Mar 20, 2025Zelixir and Shandong University's CataPro predicts how fast enzymes work, and helped find a vanillin-making enzyme 19.5 times as active as the starting one

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Affiliations

Current

Founder · Zelixirsince 2021vbdata.cn ↗

Also named in the companies' announcements: Tencent

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About

Sheng Wang is CEO of Zelixir. He studied biology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and trained in theoretical physics for his master's and PhD at the CAS Institute of Theoretical Physics. As a postdoc at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago he worked with Jinbo Xu on AI protein-structure prediction, and after returning to China in 2019 he was a senior researcher at Tencent AI Lab.

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Founded

ZelixirProtein design · 2021 · 3 rounds on record · Series A over 100 million yuan
Background: Tencent AI Lab (senior researcher); postdoc at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (as the company's own announcements put it)
Backed byQingdao Qingchi Venture Fund CDH Investments Langyu Investment GL Ventures

On the timeline

2025-03-20Zelixir and Shandong University's CataPro predicts how fast enzymes work, and helped find a vanillin-making enzyme 19.5 times as active as the starting one

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