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Gerald Chan, originally from Shunde City, Guangdong Province, was a research fellow in pathology at Harvard Medical School. He is the founder and chairman of Morningside Group and has over 20 years of experience in private equity and venture capital. He serves on the boards of various biotech companies in China, the UK, and the US.[1][2]
Biography
In his early years, Gerald Chan graduated from the Chinese section of St. Paul's Co-educational College. He later studied in the United States and earned bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from UCLA, followed by a master's in medical physics and a PhD in radiation biology from Harvard University. He conducted postdoctoral research in pathology at Harvard Medical School and Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. He officially obtained U.S. citizenship in the 1970s.
In 1987, he founded the Morningside Group,[3] a private investment group primarily focused on private equity and venture capital. Its investments span North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
He is also a non-executive director of Hang Lung Group and sits on the boards of several biopharmaceutical and diagnostic companies, including Stealth Peptides, Advanced Cell Diagnostics, Matrivax, Vaccine Technologies Inc, and Oxyrane.[4] He is also the chairman and founding investor of Apellis Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: $APLS).[5]
In 2006, the Chan brothers donated HKD 100 million to establish Morningside College at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.[6]
In September 2014, the Chan brothers donated USD 350 million to Harvard University in their father Chen Tseng-Hsi’s name,[7][8][9] leading to the renaming of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He later also donated to the University of Southern California.[6][10]
By 2015, he had invested over USD 100 million in properties in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts.[7]
In September 2018, he invested in a luxury countryside hotel in Hampshire, UK—**Heckfield Place**—a renovated 18th-century estate and farm.[11][12]
He has received honorary doctorates from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Glasgow, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Scripps Research Institute, and the University of Massachusetts Boston.[13] He was also elected Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.[14]
In 2019, he was invited to deliver the Andrew Carnegie Lecture at the University of Glasgow and served as a visiting scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge.[14]
Family
Gerald Chan's father, Chen Tseng-Hsi, founded Hang Lung Group in 1960, a company mainly focused on real estate development. His elder brother is Ronnie Chan.[6]
References
- ↑ https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%88%E4%B9%90%E5%AE%97#cite_ref-hexun_1-0
- ↑ https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%88%E4%B9%90%E5%AE%97#cite_ref-2
- ↑ https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%88%E4%B9%90%E5%AE%97#cite_ref-3
- ↑ https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%88%E4%B9%90%E5%AE%97#cite_ref-4
- ↑ https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%88%E4%B9%90%E5%AE%97#cite_ref-5
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%88%E4%B9%90%E5%AE%97#cite_ref-fish_6-0
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%88%E4%B9%90%E5%AE%97#cite_ref-bostonglobe.com_7-0
- ↑ https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%88%E4%B9%90%E5%AE%97#cite_ref-8
- ↑ https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%88%E4%B9%90%E5%AE%97#cite_ref-9
- ↑ https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%88%E4%B9%90%E5%AE%97#cite_ref-bull_10-0
- ↑ https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%88%E4%B9%90%E5%AE%97#cite_ref-11
- ↑ https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%88%E4%B9%90%E5%AE%97#cite_ref-12
- ↑ https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%88%E4%B9%90%E5%AE%97#cite_ref-13
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%88%E4%B9%90%E5%AE%97#cite_ref-:0_14-1