Tagged with biotech

China Dr Jun Bao, appointed president and CEO of Impact Therapeutics in October 2018, shares his aspirations for Impact to be a leader in synthetic lethality in oncology; the importance of ‘operating locally but selling globally’; his learnings from his distinguished career across biotech and pharma companies in the US and…

China Dr John Yu, co-founder and CEO of CGeneTech, shares the exciting story behind the company’s establishment in 2010; its balanced philosophy on new drug development and the progress of their flagship Cetagliptin, a Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitor of diabetes drug in Phase I clinical trials at the moment; the importance…

Korea Cure Therapeutics is a startup developing gene and cell therapies in Korea. Its founder David Kim explains where his passion for regenerative therapies stems from, breaks down the main hurdles standing in the way of success and describes how his company’s business model focused on flexibility and development speed through…

China Samantha Du, Chairman and CEO of Zai Lab, the flagship China biotech company, shares her inspirational story of being one of the pioneers to forge a path for Chinese biopharma innovation; the recent product launch of Optune® in Hong Kong in December 2018, Zai Lab’s second product on the market;…

Korea James Jungkue Lee, founder and CEO of Bridge Biotherapeutics, explains his strategy for risk mitigation in running a virtual biotech start-up. He also offers his insights into the company’s partnership strategy and shares his opinion on why Korea will become a global leader in biotech.   Biotech is a very…

Korea Quegen Biotech is a company focusing on manufacturing beta-glucan for use in a range of healthcare products, from hangover cures to oncology treatments. In this interview, Dr Jong Dae Lee explains the benefits of beta glucan, and how he managed to overcome the challenges in its extraction to make it…

China Jay Dong, founding GM (China and APAC) and Global VP of Cell Signaling Technology, shares the company’s success in the past ten years; the economic transformation in China driving the growth of the biotech and pharma industries; the cutting-edge solutions and technologies Cell Signaling Technology is committed to providing to…

Spain Teresa Chavarria Gimenez, director general of planning, research and training at the Ministry of Health of the Community of Madrid, highlights her role and the BioMad initiative as they look to position Madrid on the European and global biotech map.   We want to facilitate the collaboration of the public…

Korea Dr Kyung Sook Kim, CEO of Corestem, explains how her company has been pioneering the Korean stem cell industry since its foundation in 2003. She also discusses reimbursement and regulation issues that come along this expensive and complex technology and shows how stem cell therapies can be better included in…

China Harbour BioMed is a fast-growing global biotech company with facilities in Rotterdam, Boston and Shanghai. The company is laser-focused on developing both proprietary and in-licensed immunological therapies using their state-of-the-art transgenic mice technology platforms, which it also licenses to other biotechs. CEO Dr. Jingsong Wang discusses the firm’s strategy, its…

China While others have failed during the last 30 years, Hua Medicine has finally succeeded in developing a breakthrough diabetes treatment controlling blood glucose levels by taking a novel approach and modulating the glucokinase enzyme. The company is now applying the same principles to develop treatments for CNS disorders. Hua Medicine’s…

China One of the earliest innovative biotech companies in China, Zensun has developed what its founder Dr Zhou Mingdong calls a rare made-in-China first-in-class therapeutic candidate, the cardiology treatment, Neucardin®. With regulatory approval in the bag, Zensun is now expanding its new drug development to therapeutics for ageing-related diseases associated with…