Dr. Connie Kwok oversees the market segment of Healthcare Sector in NAMI. She received her B.Sc. (Hons) in Engineering Chemistry from Queen’s University, Canada, M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Washington, USA where her research interests focused on drug delivery, biomaterials, surface modifications/characterization for drug/device combination product applications.

Dr. Connie Kwok has over 15 years of industrial experience in the United States and Hong Kong. She started her career at Integra LifeSciences and was involved in skin tissue engineering. She developed slow-release, antimicrobial artificial skin templates for severely burnt patients. She then joined Abbott Vascular (formerly Guidant Vascular) and took part in their critical developments of Drug Eluting Stents (DES). She also developed a number of bioactive DES coatings to prevent stent restenosis as well as worked out relevant testing protocols for new product evaluations. She was a two-time winner of the Guidant Excellence Awards for her significant contributions there. Later, she moved on to Marina Biotech (formerly Nastech Pharmaceuticals) and helped design new adjustable-dose nasal delivery devices for protein drug formulations. She was also responsible for the quality of primary container closures and in charge of protein formulation projects where drugs were intended to be delivered nasally without sacrificing the bioavailability.

Dr. Connie Kwok was a member of Controlled Release Society (CRS) and Society for Biomaterials (SFB) where she earned a prestigious Ph.D. Student Award for her research excellence and originality. She is the first author of over 20 US patents and journal publications.