Week in Review: BGI’s CEO Says Science Drives Collaborations

In an exclusive ChinaBio® Today interview, Dr. Jun Wang, CEO of BGI, said the sequencing company is “dream-driven,” always seeking to fulfill the promise of genomic science; BGI closed its $118 million acquisition of US-based Complete Genomics last week; Roche Holding stepped up as one of the bidders for lab equipment-maker Life Technologies; Hony Capital will support Simcere’s $506 million management-led privatization offer; OriGene of Maryland raised $21.3 million in a funding led by two China-focused venture funds; BGI and H3 Biomedicine of Cambridge will collaborate to sequence pre-clinical cancer models; Lilly officially opened the Lilly Global IT Innovations Lab in Dalian; Taiwan Liposome’s innovative liver cancer drug was accepted into the SFDA’s Green Path program; Amoy Diagnostics, a Xiamen IVD company, was OK’d to market a test for genetic abnormalities that affect lung cancer treatment; and Antisense of Australia will have Pharmaron conduct a toxicology study of its multiple sclerosis drug candidate. More details…. Stock Symbols: (VX: ROG) (NSDQ: LIFE) (NYSE: SCR) (NYSE: LLY) (TW: 4152) (ASX: ANP) Share this with colleagues: // //