Biotech Surge: CAS Academicians and Leading Universities Gather at Transfar Science City for Innovation Forum
Examining the landscape of urban industrial development in China, Hangzhou has always been one of the key cities for innovative growth.
Numerous industry-leading enterprises and platforms are unleashing their immense potential here, with a growing number of scientists choosing Hangzhou as the launchpad for their careers. Coupled with globally renowned universities and institutions such as Zhejiang University and Westlake University, the city boasts a high concentration of scientific research and talent, fostering the gradual aggregation of innovation resources in Hangzhou.
“Wanwu Shengzhang Conference” is Hangzhou, and even Zhejiang Province’sEntrepreneurship, Innovation, Venture CapitalThe most forward-looking and authoritative dialogue platform in the field. Over the past five years, the conference has attracted more than 10,000 participants from domestic and international unicorn companies, entrepreneurs, investors, and venture capital firms, gathering the most robust forces for entrepreneurship and innovation in Hangzhou.
To date, the Wansheng Zhang Conference has become a grand gathering for unicorns in the Yangtze River Delta region, China’s most innovative and dynamic area, radiating its influence across innovation hubs nationwide and even globally.
On June 28, 2022, the Biotechnology Innovation Forum of the 6th Wanwu Shengzhang Conference will be held at Transfar Sci-Tech City in Xiaoshan, Hangzhou.The Xiaoshan Science and Technology City Administration and Transfar Sci-Tech City will join hands with top scholars in the field of biotechnology, academic experts, industry leaders, sci-tech innovation enterprises, and venture capital funds to discuss the development trajectory and future trends of biotechnology, thereby promoting the growth of the biotechnology industry.
This marks the first time the All Things Growth Conference has focused its attention on a vertical sector such as biotechnology. It also represents another significant exploration by Hangzhou’s Xiaoshan District in promoting the upgrading of the biotechnology industry.
Fundamentally, the rapid breakthroughs and development in biotechnology are fostering new momentum for the future growth of the bioeconomy. Frontier research areas such as gene therapy, cell therapy, and synthetic biology are continuously achieving groundbreaking progress; the development of convergent technologies, including brain-computer interfaces, neural chips, and bionic robots, is steadily advancing toward translational applications; biotechnology is demonstrating significant impact in fields such as agri-food, biological resources, and biosafety; and disruptive innovations are emerging endlessly across industries including biopharmaceuticals, chemicals, materials, and energy.
The 6th All Things Growth Conference—Biotechnology Innovation Forum will connect and gather core resources from government, industry, academia, research, and investment sectors related to the biotechnology industry, building a platform for the exchange and integration of innovative forces. Overall, the conference features three major highlights worth anticipating:
Top industry leaders bring deep insights and perspectives to the conference. This event brings together five key sectors—government, academia, research, industry, and investment—featuring academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, scholars from university departments, founders of leading enterprises, and top domestic investors, all gathering to foster robust cross-industry exchange and interaction.Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chief Scientist of the Biomedical Big Data Center at the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician Zhao GuopingLeading.Professor Yang Lirong, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University、Cao Tong, Chief Scientist at the Life Sciences Institute of the National University of Singapore、Qu Kun, Professor at the Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of ChinaExperts and scholars will deliver in-depth presentations at the conference,NHU, Bloomage Biotech, Qihan Biology, Enhe Bio, Element Drive, Yanjin TechandSequoia ChinaWill participate in the roundtable discussion.
The forum serves as a platform to centrally showcase the insights of industry participants. This event will feature a “brainstorming” session covering macro-environmental factors and future trends of interest to the industry, including policy, technology, and capital. The event content involvesSynthetic Biology, Cell and Gene Therapy, Regenerative Medicine, and Other Hot Biotechnologies, coveringHot Topics in Industrial Development: Technological Breakthroughs, Innovative Applications, Investment Trends, and Industrial Clusters. The roundtable session will focus onSource Innovation and the Building of Biotechnology Industry ClustersExpand the discussion.
Policy, talent, technology, and capital are all essential elements for industrial development. This event will gather these industrial elements to build a platform for the exchange and integration of innovative forces. With over 30 years of deep engagement in the chemical industry, Transfar Group has become a global leader in functional chemicals and new materials, boasting profound expertise in aggregating innovative resources and cultivating an innovation ecosystem. During the event, Transfar Science & Technology City will comprehensively showcase its efforts in buildingInternational Sci-Tech Innovation Community + Industrial Ecosystemoutcome elements.The medical sub-fund jointly established by Transfar Capital and Hangzhou High-Tech Investment Co., Ltd. will be signed and launched at the event.. The fund will focus on investing in innovative projects in the fields of biomedicine and healthcare, helping portfolio companies achieve rapid growth.
Hand-Drawn Map of Transfar Sci-Tech City
Notably, the host city of this conference, Xiaoshan Science and Technology City, is an emerging hub well-suited for the development of the biotechnology industry. Xiaoshan Science and Technology City has designated life sciences as its “No. 1 Industry,” focusing on the biotechnology innovation chain and the medical device industry chain. It has already established an initial footprint in areas such as high-end medical devices, genetic engineering, precision medicine, and innovative drug R&D.
As a key platform of Xiaoshan Science and Technology City and one of the organizers of this event, Transfar Sci-Tech City is accelerating the development of a life sciences industry ecosystem. By building an innovation platform that converges talent, technology, and capital, it aims to better support scientific and technological advancement as well as the entrepreneurship and innovation of sci-tech professionals, thereby establishing a model innovation platform featuring an “International Sci-Tech Community + Industry Ecosystem.”
Transfar Group, which originated as a chemical enterprise, possesses unique advantages in developing the biotechnology industry, specifically through its well-prepared supporting infrastructure for both the “innovation chain” and the “industrial chain.” Xin’an Chemical, a subsidiary of Transfar Group, is exploring applications of synthetic biology technology, thereby providing more application scenarios for synthetic biology companies within Transfar Science & Technology City. Additionally, Transfar Chemistry will provide comprehensive industrialization resources to support innovative enterprises incubated at Transfar Science & Technology City.
As of now, Transfar Science & Technology City has alreadyGene editing and sequencing, cell therapy, digital health, and healthcare services within the life sciences industryInitial industrial agglomeration has been formed.
All things grow and surge forward. The curtain has risen on a new wave of economic expansion, and the era of the bioeconomy is racing toward us at a speed beyond our imagination.
For more details about the event, please contact Ms. Lu at Hangzhou Transfar Sci-Tech City Company: 18106500251
About Transfar Science & Technology City
Transfar Sci-Tech City, with a total planned area of 3.78 square kilometers, is located in the core area of Hangzhou Xiaoshan Sci-Tech City. Adhering to the development philosophy of “government-led and enterprise-driven,” it pursues the strategic vision of building a new type of high-end sci-tech innovation platform characterized by “support for the real economy, international community quality, leadership in digital technology, collaborative governance between government and enterprises, and a closed-loop industrial capital ecosystem.” By creating an integrated model of “one city, one industry,” it aims to form an international sci-tech innovation community centered on the life sciences industry. It is being developed into a demonstration unit for common prosperity that deeply integrates “industry, city, people, and culture,” serving sci-tech talents and scientists, and contributing to the establishment of Hangzhou as a city of innovative vitality.
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