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Young Whan Park and the case for a smaller room
After leading research inside larger institutions, Young Whan Park co-founded Avelos Therapeutics in Seoul. His next chapter turns on a practical question: how much can a small company accomplish when experience, resources, and responsibility are shared?
Soongyu Choi
Soongyu Choi is the co-CEO and co-founder of Avelos Therapeutics, a Seoul-based clinical-stage precision oncology company chasing first-in-class small molecules in synthetic lethality, DNA damage response, and cell cycle control. A Harvard-trained chemist who spent a decade at PTC Therapeutics and led R&D at Yuhan and Hana Pharm, he co-founded Avelos in 2021 and was elevated from CTO to co-CEO in January 2024. His flagship program, AD1208, is a first-in-class MASTL kinase inhibitor he frames as a precise strike on cancers that have stopped responding to standard therapy.