PolyU Webinar Series (4) – The future of biotech industry in Hong Kong

 The Institute for Entrepreneurship (IfE), PolyU organized a series of webinar in the theme “Booting Re-industrialization” so as to drive Hong Kong’s reindustrialization.  The last webinar named “The future of biotech industry in Hong Kong” was held on 18^th Nov 2020.  

The first speaker was Dr. Shawn Leung Shui-on (Founder and CEO, SinoMab BioScience Limited) and he shared his experience to enter biotech field for antibody.  He was invited to be HKIB Director (2000-2002) and then he decided to develop his career for antibody following the new momentum.  

The second speaker was Mr. Stanley Sy (CEO, Sanomics Limited) and he shared why he formed a startup for cancer treatment.  Precision medicine was the trend and the key focus on precision.  Therefore, he developed genetic testing for cancer treatment.  

The third speaker was Mr. William Yim (Executive Chairman & CIO, Sanwa Biotech Limited & Poly-preneurs) and he shared why he from leading micro joining and laser micro machining solutions provider entered to biomedical field.  

In 1991, he established Sanwa Technologies to provide advanced manufacturing process solutions and then the company direction changed to provide Total Manufacturing Solution for Biomedical Microfluidic Lab on Chip (LOC) system in 2012.  

Mr. William Yim appreciated Mr. Kelvin Chiu and Dr. Isabelle Dutry joined to form the company 7 years ago.  Now company was from 3 people to near 50 staffs with near 10k sq-ft laboratory in FoTan.

Finally, Mr. Yim introduced their product for rapid diagnostic result within 15 minutes.

Lastly, he shared his expansion plan and one of new facility at AMC, HKSTP.

The last speaker was Prof. Zhao Yanxiang and her topic named “Research and Talent Development for Biotechnology in PolyU”. Firstly she introduced PolyU academic program on talent development, internship and career development for biotech industry.

And then Prof. Zhao briefed PolyU biotech research through government-academic-industry alliance.

After that she introduced PolyU cancer drug development technology platform from bench to pre-clincial.

Finally she mentioned their biotech facilities such as Centralized Animal Facility in Shenzhen such as Animal Biosafety Level II Facility (ABSL-II).  Prof. Zhao briefed PolyU’s strategic plan for future development in biotech education (e.g. BSc(Hons) in Science, Innovation & Entrepreneurship – first intake in 2022) and research (e.g. Synthetic biology, big data for medical and health, food safety and technology, etc.).

Discussion forum session

Reference:

Re-industrialisation Funding Scheme (RFS) - https://www.itf.gov.hk/en/funding-programmes/facilitating-technology/rfs/index.html

HKSTP AMC - https://amc.hkstp.org/

FHKI - https://www.industryhk.org/en/

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