BLENDING NATURE AND SCIENCE --MINING EASTERN HEALING KNOWLEDGE BASE TO DEVELOP SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS TO CHALLENGING CHRONIC HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE WEST-Dr. Shirley Chen-02/22/2011 - 8:30am

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BLENDING NATURE AND SCIENCE --MINING EASTERN HEALING KNOWLEDGE BASE TO DEVELOP SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS TO CHALLENGING CHRONIC HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE WEST
Event Date: 
02/22/2011 - 8:30am
Event Location: 
Sunnyvale City Council Chambers, 456 West Olive Ave., Sunnyvale, CA
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Event Speaker: 
Dr. Shirley Chen
Event Speaker Title: 
Founder and CEO
Event Speaker Company: 
WinVivo Corp.
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Dr. Shirley Chen is founder and CEO of WinVivo Corp, a California green healthcare platform specialized in the development of unique botanical products that provide long term sustainable, effective solutions to chronic health problems such as systemic ailments related to abnormal immunity, infection, and allergy, as well as chronic non-healing skin ulcers, wounds, and dermatological disorders (eczema, acne and contact dermatitis).

Dr. Chen brings 12 years of experiences in global health product development and market expansion in the US, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, pharmaceutical and biotechnology intellectual property (IP) protection and brand management. This combined technical, legal and business expertise is built on her 10+ years of academic research into cancer biology, virology, molecular biology and biological chemistry.

Prior to her entrepreneurship Dr. Chen was a senior IP counsel at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. She has also been a principal investigator in cancer biology research and drug development at SRI International, and carried out postdoctoral research of viruses in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Dr. Harold E. Varmus at UCSF and at UC Berkeley. She is a member of the State Bar of California, and holds a JD from Santa Clara University and a PhD in biological chemistry from SUNY Stony Brook.

Dr. Chen was born in China to two botanist parents in a remote mountain area of South West China and graduated from Peking University with a BS in Applied Chemistry. She loves Asian cooking and organic gardening, growing flowers, fruits and vegetables at her Silicon Valley home.

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BLENDING NATURE AND SCIENCE--MINING EASTERN HEALING KNOWLEDGE BASE TO DEVELOP SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS TO CHALLENGING CHRONIC HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE WEST
— A Case Study of the WinVivo Healing Balm for Wounds and Dermatological Disorders

Pharmaceutical industry in the West is going through a major drying of product pipeline; and substantial policy and economic pressures on ballooning healthcare costs are pushing for lower-cost, more effective solutions to large population chronic health problems.

Emerging from this background is Silicon Valley’s WinVivo who looks to the East to find more cost-effective, sustainable solutions to the grim healthcare problems. Leveraging its core competence of expertise in biomedical and natural product development WinVivo has rapidly developed and marketed a series of highly effective natural health products within a year of its establishment. By building a affiliate network of trained health and wellness practitioners and influential green community leaders online and offline, WinVivo is now able to reach out to a broad base of consumers and patients who have been searching for more effective alternative or complementary solutions to their chronic problems.

Using the WinVivo Healing Balm as a case study, Dr. Shirley Chen will discuss how a simple jar of botanical ointment can replace a garden variety of (expensive) wound care reagents and devices to heal large-area, infected, acute as well as chronic wounds such as diabetic ulcers, arterial and venous stasis ulcers and bedsores. Interestingly, this product has also been found to be highly effective for suppressing itch and skin inflammation such as eczema, contact dermatitis (poison oak), hives, Herpes zoster, and cold sores. Coupled with the topical products to address symptoms on the skin, synergistic botanical combinations in oral formulations have been developed by WinVivo to systemically deliver immune-regulating and broad-spectrum anti-microbial constituents to address the root causes of the skin problems.