Joy Feng

Joy is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Emory University with a 25-year experience in the pharmaceutical industry. She received her B.S. from Peking University School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, her Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry from Dr. Rayond Bergeron’s lab at the University of Florida School of Pharmacy, and postdoctoral training in enzymology in Dr. Karen Anderson’s lab at Yale University School of Medicine. Joy’s research focuses on drug mechanisms of action, drug combinations, drug resistance, drug metabolism, off-target effects, and toxicity. Joy contributed to the approval of three marketed drugs: Emtricitabine (FTC) for HIV, Sofosbuvir for HCV, and is one of the inventors of Remdesivir, the first FDA-approved direct antiviral for treating COVID-19, and Obeldesivir (GS-5245), currently in clinical trials for the treatment of RSV infection.