Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) Bio Bay is located in the southwest of SIP Dushu lake high education town. Suzhou Industrial Park, the biggest cooperation program between China and Singapore, is committed to develop into a high-tech industrial park with international competitiveness and a modern, international garden-like township. SIP Bio Bay plays a key role as the innovation base for Suzhou Industrial Park to cultivate biotechnology industry and also an innovation platform for the booming of biotechnology and nanotechnology development of both Suzhou city and China. www.biobay.com.cn/en/index.html

Foley is a highly regarded, national law firm providing client-focused, industry-specific services that result in high-value legal counsel for our clients. Foley is dedicated to the interests of our clients, our people, and our communities. We strive to address their needs and meet their expectations efficiently and effectively — and we do so with integrity, insight, and innovation.
www.foley.com

Legend Capital (LC) is a venture capital firm with over USD$1.5 billion and RMB3.5 billion funds under management. Consistently ranked among the top five in China, LC has offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan. By January 2012, LC had invested in over 150 companies, of which 20 are listed on NYSE, NASDAQ, HKEx, Gretai Securities Market, Shanghai Stock Exchange, GEM and ChiNext of Shenzhen Stock Exchange, and another 11 had achieved exit through M&A. LC has an investment team with over 50 professionals, including 14 partners. LC has invested in close to 20 healthcare and life sciences companies, such as Kingmed, Pharmaron, EverCare, AmCare, YiXinTang, Kawin Technology and Dihon Pharmaceutical. Aggressively seeking investment opportunities in this sector, LC has a healthcare-dedicated team with eight investment professionals.www.legendcapital.com.cn

From concept to commercialization and through exit, Morrison & Foerster's global Life Sciences Group is recognized as a leading provider of comprehensive legal services to the life sciences industry and its funding sources. The unique strength of our practice is in our ability to meld hands-on scientific acumen with deep business and legal insight. With offices in Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong, as well as Tokyo, Europe and across the United States, Morrison & Foerster is incomparably positioned to assist life sciences entities around the world. For more information, please visit www.mofo.com. 

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Official Partners

BayHelix is an organization of leaders of Chinese origin in the global life sciences and healthcare community. We aspire to shape the growth of the life sciences and healthcare industry around the Pacific Rim and beyond, foster and create business opportunities, supply and nurture the leaders for the community, and network and share information and experience. BayHelix is a non-profit organization and its membership is by-invitation-only. www.bayhelix.org

BioCentury Publications, Inc., www.biocentury.com provides essential biopharma industry intelligence from five offices in the U.S. and Europe. For more than 18 years, a global audience of biotech and pharmaceutical executives and investors has benefited from BioCentury's deep knowledge, data-driven analysis, independent perspective and trustworthy content available through the company's publications, data products and collaborative industry conferences in the U.S., Europe and Asia. BioCentury's titles include the flagship BioCentury, the Bernstein Report on BioBusiness; SciBX: Science-Business eXchange, a translational science joint publishing venture with Nature Publishing Group; and BioCentury Extra, online daily news covering breaking developments BioCentury also markets its BCIQ: BioCentury Online Intelligence, an online business intelligence resource. In September 2010, the company launched BioCentury This Week, the first weekly biotech public affairs TV program to be broadcast in major U.S. television markets, a partnership with the Gannett-owned CBS affiliate W*USA Channel 9 in Washington, D.C. The BioCentury This Week TV show website continuously streams TV content at www.biocenturytv.com.

 

 

Business Wire is a trusted partner to thousands of Health, Medical, Biotech and Pharmaceutical companies and organizations throughout the world, delivering more corporate news releases from more sources to more destinations than any other service.

Business Wire's news wire circuits enable you to target your news to select audiences based on your geographic and industry market needs. Business Wire is the only commercial news wire with full-carriage access to all of the world's leading news agencies, including the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Dow Jones, Reuters, Jiji Press, Interfax and more. We can send your news to virtually any media market in the world with distribution to more than 150 countries in dozens of local languages. From delivery to audiences in a single city to comprehensive worldwide coverage including translations, Business Wire offers you an easy, one-stop solution. www.businesswire.com

 

Nature is the world's foremost weekly scientific journal and is the flagship journal for Nature Publishing Group (NPG). Launched in 1869, its original mission statement still leads the Group as we develop publications, explore opportunities arising from new technology and serve a growing audience of readers.NPG publishes journals and online databases across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine. Content encompasses daily news from award-winning journalists, expert opinion and practical methodology, and more high impact research and reviews than any science publisher. Over 30 journals are published in association with prestigious academic societies. www.nature.com

Beijing Pharma and Biotech Center (BPBC) is the principal health research agency of the Beijing Local Government; it is a component of Beijing Municipal Commission for Science and Technology (BMCST). Established in 1996 and initially function as the development and implementation of Beijing Government Grants Policy, BPBC serves as the focal point for advisory industrial policy, mandatory project management for government and international bridge between Chinese Biotech & Pharmaceutical Industry and the rest of the world. BPBC is composed of five divisions: Project Management, Strategy Study, Business Liaison and International Affairs, General Administration and Financial Management Divisions. www.newlife.org.cn/en

BIOCOM is a leading biotechnology industry association with over 550 leading life science companies from Southern California as members. BIOCOM's initiatives focus on capital formation, public policy, resource development and scientific discovery and development. They have recently launched a special program to educate and connect U.S.-based life science companies with low cost resources and services available in China. www.biocom.org

Chinese-American BioPharmaceutical Society (CABS) is a not-for-profit, non-political, non-religious professional organization headquartered in San Francisco, California. With the rapid development of bio/pharmaceutical industry in China, more and more people, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are looking toward China for business and scientific opportunities. Recognizing this trend, CABS was established not only to educate the public with the progress in biotech and pharmaceutical fields, but also to serve the Bio/Pharmaceutical professionals who are either with Chinese heritage or with professional interests in China. The majority of CABS members are Chinese scientists, entrepreneurs and students/postdocs in biomedical sciences, working in San Francisco Bay Area bio/pharmaceutical industries, universities, and research institutes. The CABS membership is open to the public.

www.cabsweb.org/CABSweb/home_page.jsp

 

 

The Chinese Biopharmaceutical Association (CBA) is a non-profit organization made up of professionals who have an interest in bio-pharmaceutical research and/or technology development. CBA was established in 1995 and its headquarters are located in the State of Maryland, which is adjacent to the U.S. capital city of Washington D.C. The majority of CBA members are Chinese scientists, researchers, or professors. They work in government agencies, universities, research institutes as well as in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. Some are conducting pioneering research with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), whereas others are directly involved in the government regulatory process as officers of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or in the field of intellectual property as patent attorneys or as patent examiners with the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). http://www.cba-usa.org/cba_home.htm

 

 

ChinaSF is an economic development platform supporting business exchange between China and San Francisco.  It is a partnership between the City of San Francisco Mayor's Office and the San Francisco Center for Economic Development. With an office in Shanghai and in San Francisco, it is able to provide bi-lingual cross-border support to Chinese businesses interested in expanding business operations to North America. In particular, it can connect Chinese businesses to necessary professional service resources, business partners and can help navigate government regulations. This initiative builds on the already strong cultural exchange between San Francisco and China by providing a systematic support for strengthening business and economic relations. www.sfced.org/international/chinasf

Guangzhou Biotechnology Center (namely Biomedical work group of Guangzhou Municipal Government) under the jurisdiction of the Biotechnology Steering Group and the Sciences &Technology Bureau of Guangzhou Municipal Government is a service agency specializing in biotechnology and medicine industry. Its key missions are to develop the biotechnology and medicine industry of Guangzhou and to accelerate the transfer of S&T achievements and parallel cooperation and exchange. www.gzbio.net

Sino-American Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Professionals Association (SABPA) is a 501(C) (3) nonprofit organization founded in early 2002 by professionals and scholars from local Chinese community in San Diego. We invite all scholars, students and professionals with any origin who are working in, engaged in, or interested in the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to join us as members of SABPA. www.sabpa.org/web/index.php 

The Sino-American Pharmaceutical Professionals Association (SAPA) was founded in 1993 as a non-profit organization with its headquarters in the Greater New York area (NJ/NY/CT). SAPA has grown rapidly to become one of the most active and well-recognized professional organizations in the United States with over 4000 members. SAPA's missions are to facilitate the advancement of pharmaceutical science and biotechnology, to contribute to public health education, to foster personal and professional career development, and to promote scientific exchange and business cooperation between the USA and China. In addition to the Greater New York area, SAPA has established regional chapters in New England (SAPA-NE), Greater Philadelphia (SAPA-GP) and West Coast (SAPA-WEST), as well as Shanghai Club (SAPA-Shanghai). www.sapaweb.org  

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Media Partners

Bioon are the leading life science portal in China. And professional registered members have more than 500 thousand; special 70% members are the master's -and doctoral qualifications. Our enterprises’ customers are more than 11 thousand, such as Invitrogen, Promega, Qiagen, Sigma, Pall. As the leading service- provider in China, we are committed to enhance the competition of our customers in life sciences. The following pipelines are our mature businesses: (1) www.bioon.com commitment to the field of life sciences media and brand promotion; (2) www.bioon.com.cn focused on our customers’ products -promotion, display and rankings, such as equipments, consumables, reagents and antibodies; Addition, we collected and sorted the serial of databases -including China lab database, professor database and region -based registered members database. These databases are the strong support and tool for customers marketing activity and marketing survey & analysis. Now, Bioon.com has become the preferred options to life sciences’ customers for professional seminar & training, targeting product promotion, brand -improvement and marketing survey & analysis. of professional customers in China. www.bioon.com

 

China is already the fastest growing market in the world for pharmaceuticals. Now, after billions of dollars of government and private investment, China is transforming itself into a world leader in biotechnology. ChinaBio^® Today focuses exclusively on the rapidly evolving biotech industry in China. From our offices in Shanghai and California, we provide daily news, commentary and analysis on public and private China biotech companies and industry events, as well as global issues affecting the China market.  www.chinabiotoday.com

Interfax China is a member of the Interfax International Information Group. Interfax Group provides news and other information products that are essential for decision-makers in politics and business. Since early 1990s, Interfax has been the main provider of up-to-date news from Russia and countries of the former Soviet Union. We are the most frequently quoted source of information on the region. Over the past few years, Interfax has also become a leading provider of political and business news from China and emerging markets of Central Europe. www.interfax.cn

 

For ten years, LaVoie Group has been the leader in Life Science Communications, serving clients in the biotech and pharmaceutical, medical device and diagnostics, as well as platform technology sectors. We have partnered with leading life sciences brands to build their companies, attract capital, and reach corporate partners, patients, and physicians through integrated communications and outreach programs. We work globally and represent our clients to develop strategies and implementation of corporate and/or product programs. Our clients include- Aegerion Pharmaceuticals, Alphatec Spine, Invida Group, Pfizer Inc., Vertex Pharmaceuticals, sanofi and Hepregen Corporation. LaVoie Group is ranked by O’Dwyer’s 2011 PR Report as one of the leading independent healthcare PR firms in the U.S. 2010. Our industry awards include the coveted Impact Award for “Best Industry-Exclusive Agency,” sponsored by the League of American Communications Professionals (LACP) and the Bell Ringer merit award for corporate identity by the New England Publicity Club and we have been honored by the LACP as “Boutique Agency of the Year” for 3 years in a row - 2008, 2009 and 2010. www.lavoiegroup.com

PharmAsiaNews.com is an online portal providing news and analysis on regulatory, legal and financial developments affecting pharmaceutical, biologics and medical device manufacturers doing business in China, India, Japan and other nations of the Pacific Rim. PharmAsiaNews.com leverages the editorial excellence of "The Pink Sheet" -- the leading information source for the U.S. pharmaceutical industry since 1939. Subscribers get original on-the-ground reporting from news bureaus across Asia, guest columns, exclusive interviews, news summaries, English translation summaries of Chinese- and Japanese-language news, and aggregated content from around the globe. Free 30-day trial.www.PharmAsiaNews.com

Healthcare Executive, established in December 2008, is a monthly magazine focused on the pharmaceutical industry. It is hosted by Chinese Pharmaceutical Enterprises Association and ZhuoXin Medical Media Group and supported by a team consists of senior medical media people, and positioned to a “the news and resource center in the pharmaceutical industry”. Its readers are mostly entrepreneurs, investors, and people work at the supervision and services organizations in this industry.
In terms of the content, Healthcare Executive has been realistic, reports on the whole industry chain, discovers the experiences and concerns, strategies and execution, growth and missions of industry entrepreneurs and forms the most abundant and comprehensive database of the growth cases of the industry companies. It combines global vision and local intelligence, being open-minded and concentrated at the same time, brings the most and profound understanding to its readers, building new medical media languages. Healthcare Executive also presents the first hand industry news on the development of new products, production and circulation, supervision and services organizations, capitals, helps people update information quickly, discover values and make progress. Our vision is that every one serves in pharmaceutical industry reads Healthcare Executive. For now, we’re working hard to make each issue a great excitement.www.he-cn.com