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Me & My Career
Bringing to biotech his business edge
In this series, individuals share their career journeys and provide an inside look into their jobs and industries. This week we speak with a biomedical sciences entrepreneur.
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Start-up co-founder Jeffrey Lu knows all too well the looks he gets at meetings with potential investors or partners and comments like, "Oh, you're so young to be a CEO".
Mr Lu, 37, says the age gap is especially stark in the biomedical sciences industry, where developing a drug can take many years and there is a general sense that younger or less experienced people may not appreciate the difficulties of the problem or in generating a solution.
