Dr. Nares Damrongchai is a leader in the life sciences space. He served as the executive director of the APEC Center for Technology Foresight, the lead shepherd of the APEC Industrial Science and Technology Working Group, and most recently as co-chair of APEC Life Sciences Innovation Forum. Dr. Nares was invited to join an International Expert Panel for Asia-Pacific in the creation of the Personalized Health Index, an ambitious project attempting to benchmark healthcare data from countries across the globe.
Dr. Nares served for two full terms as CEO of the Thailand Center of Excellence for Life Sciences (TCELS), where he helped create a robust life sciences cluster in the country. Since 2021 he has worked with Genepeutic Bio, a biotech company focused on developing next-generation cell and gene therapies.