Lian Ma, Ph.D.

Dr. Lian Ma is the Vice President of US Regulatory Affairs and Clinical Pharmacology at Createrna Science and Technology. Prior to joining Createrna, Dr. Ma worked at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for 10 years as a Reviewer and later a Team Leader in the Division of Pharmacometrics, Office of Clinical Pharmacology within Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Her team contributed to the review of investigational new drug (IND), new drug (NDA), and biologic licensing (BLA) applications to effectively incorporate clinical pharmacology and model-informed drug development (MIDD) strategies. She was involved in regulatory decision-making for drug products across multiple therapeutic areas, including oncology, hematology, diabetes, lipid disorder & obesity, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hepatology, rare diseases & medical genetics, medical imaging & radiation medicine. She has also engaged in regulatory policy development and research projects, and published a number of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters focused on trial design, dose selection & optimization for pediatric rare diseases and oncology drug development.
Dr. Ma has a Ph.D. from Oregon State University and M.S. and B.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Peking University. She also received an ACDRS (Drug Development and Regulatory Sciences) Certificate from UCSF Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine."