Optics Valley of China holds a promotion conference for its bio industry at Harvard Medical School in Boston, the United States on Nov 6. [Photo provided to China Daily]
East Lake High-tech Development Zone (Optics Valley of China) in Wuhan, Hubei province held Biotech & Pharmaceutical Development Environment Promotion Conference at Harvard Medical School in Boston, the United States on Nov 6, attracting around 150 experts, scholars and businesspeople from the city’s biological sector.
Optics Valley of China has held such promotion conferences in four innovation heartlands with global influence, including Toronto in Canada and Boston, San Diego and Silicon Valley in the US since Nov 3 –– to promote the development of the bio industry in the zone.
At Harvard University, Optics Valley of China signed a cooperation agreement with the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging (the Center), one of the world’s premier research centers devoted to the development and application of advanced biomedical imaging technologies which was jointly established by Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Center had visited a number of cities in China to inspect the feasibility of industrial cooperation, and Optics Valley of China impressed the Center with its well-developed biomedical sector.
According to the agreement, the Center will utilize Optics Valley’s advantages in entrepreneurship and innovation, industrial conglomeration, and preferential policies –– realizing industrialization of its cutting-edge developments in the field of medical imaging and promoting the development of the bio health industry.
Following the operation model of “funds + incubation”, the two parties will set up a health and medical industry fund, investing in and incubating health products based on world-leading technologies in Wuhan, as well as introducing top international experts and programs.
The two parties will also establish a medical imaging research center in Biolake of the Optics Valley of China, and hold high-level academic exchanges in the medical imaging industry during the bio-expo next year.
Four other major cooperation agreements were also signed during the promotion conference at Harvard University to develop the bio industry in Optics Valley of China.
The zone will continue to visit more than 10 world-famous companies, including Illumina, a leading company in the field of biological instruments and Amyris, a leading company in the field of biosynthesis, in order to seek cooperation in the biological sector.
Experts, scholars and businesspeople attend a promotion conference for Optics Valley of China’s biological sector in Boston. [Photo provided to China Daily]
Bruce Rosen (right), director of the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, attends the promotion conference held at Harvard Medical School on Nov 6. [Photo provided to China Daily]
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