Dennis Leung received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 2006 working on supramolecular chemistry as a joint student with Prof. Bob Bergman and Ken Raymond. He then pursued a postdoctoral position at the University of California, Irvine working on novel polymerization catalysts before beginning his industrial career at Merck. He moved to Genentech in early 2016 where he is currently a Director and head of the Discovery Pharmaceutics group. This group is integrated in the drug discovery and early drug development phases with a focus on pharmaceutics, materials science, formulation, and drug delivery.