Dr. Leung is a Visiting Scientist at MIT participating in biotechnology research projects in the Biology and Chemical Engineering departments. He also engages with biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies by serving as consulting advisor in the areas of biotherapeutic development and manufacturing.

For the last ten years, Dr. Leung was the Vice President of Biotechnology at Ipsen, an international pharmaceutical company headquartered in France and the United Kingdom. Prior to Ipsen, from 1995 to 1998, he worked as an independent consultant advising startup biotechnology companies in the United States and Asia, and served as industrial coordinator for two consortia at MIT – BioProcess Engineering Center (BPEC) and Consortium for the Advanced Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals (CAMP). From 1993 to 1995, Dr. Leung was the Senior Vice President of Operations at Repligen Corp., a public biotechnology company focused on developing novel therapeutics for neurological disorders. Dr. Leung started his biotechnology career at Genentech, Inc.

Dr. Leung received a B.Sc. degree from the Chemical Engineering Department at MIT, and a M.Sc. degree and a Ph.D. degree in biochemical engineering from MIT.