Li Zheng, MD, MS, MBA

Genentech

Li is currently the Global Head of Analytical Data Science in the Global Product Development group at Roche. Throughout her 20+ years of experience in Biotech/Pharma, Li has taken various leadership roles with increased responsibilities supporting late-stage clinical development in several therapeutic areas as well as improvement of technology and business processes in the programming function. Li is passionate about the evolving role of data scientist within the Biotech/Pharma industry. In recent years, she helped establish long term visions of the programming specialty and has been driving the changes and transformation of Data Scientist at Roche, including sponsoring Roche’s open-source strategy from its early days and development & upskilling the capabilities of analytical data scientists taking advantage of modern technology. Li is a member of the Global Programming Head Council. She holds a MS degree in Biostatistics from University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an MBA degree from Northeastern University.