Burning Rock Biotech Limited announced the resignation of Mr. Jing Rong as a director from the Board, and the appointment of Dr. Licen Lisa Xu as an independent director to the Board. Dr. Xu has over 15 years of experience in driving the productization and lifecycle for life science and biomedical products, from conceptualization and research to development and commercialization. She is the chief commercial officer of FlashDx Inc., a molecular diagnostics point-of-care solution company, and an independent board member of Ribbon Biolab, a company specialized in the production of synthetic DNAs.

Dr. Xu served as a vice president on strategic product management and lifecycle management at Roche Diagnostics, a subsidiary of Roche Holding AG for the development of diagnostic tests, instruments and digital solutions, and a vice president on strategic marketing and product management at Illumina Inc. Dr. Xu has a Ph.D. degree in molecular biology from University of Zurich and a master of science degree in biophysics from Tsinghua University, and completed the business executive education program from Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania.