Sponsors
Founding Platinum
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide and has one of the largest life sciences practices in the United States. The firm has a 60-plus-year history of representing trailblazers in the life sciences industry, from the earliest innovators to those shaping the future of healthcare today. Our multidisciplinary team of attorneys, patent agents, and scientific advisors works closely with entrepreneurs, scientists, and investors who trust the firm’s strategic advice to establish and realize their companies’ business objectives, which includes protecting and leveraging their most valuable IP assets. We represent life sciences companies through the entire business life cycle, from formation through IPO and strategic partnerships, and often act as outside general counsel with support from our cross-functional, global life sciences team. Our clients include thousands of innovation-focused life sciences companies, research institutions, start-up accelerators and incubators, and the venture capital funds and banks that finance the industry.
Silver
Hankang Capital
Founded in 2015, Hankang Capital is a specialized venture capital firm dedicated to the biotech industry. Headquartered in Shanghai with a strategic presence in Beijing and Hong Kong, we are positioned to bridge China’s R&D excellence with global innovation. Guided by our mission to “Empower Biomedical Innovation and Safeguard Human Health”, we partner with visionary entrepreneurs to provide end-to-end support across the entire drug development lifecycle, and our goal is to advance breakthrough therapeutics that address critical unmet medical needs across major therapeutic areas and diverse modalities on a global scale. To date, Hankang Capital has invested in over 50 high-potential companies, fostering industry leaders such as Akesobio, InnoCare, Keymed Biosciences, Abbisko, DualityBio, and Leads Biolabs. Our portfolio has built a consistent track record of successful IPOs on the HKEX and A-share markets, alongside extensive out-licensing and co-development partnerships with global MNCs. With multiple drug candidates having received regulatory approvals from the NMPA and FDA, Hankang remains committed to delivering lasting clinical value and investment impact.
Strategic Partner
Ascentage Pharma
Ascentage Pharma is a global, commercial stage, integrated biopharmaceutical company engaged in discovering, developing and commercializing therapies to address global unmet medical needs in cancer. On October 28, 2019, the Company was listed on the Main Board of HKEX (stock code: 6855.HK). On January 24, 2025, the Company was listed on NASDAQ (stock code: AAPG), becoming the first biopharmaceutical company to complete dual primary listing sequentially on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and then on NASDAQ.
Ascentage Pharma has a world-class innovative, and highly derisked late stage pipeline, including 13 registrational Phase III clinical studies (completed or ongoing), of which 4 have been approved by the FDA and EMA. The Company’s two products, Olverembatinib and Lisaftoclax, have been approved for marketing in China. All approved indications of Olverembatinib have been included in the China NRDL.
Strategic Partner
JP Morgan
J.P. Morgan partners with healthcare leaders to deliver strategic advice and capital at scale. Our dedicated Healthcare Investment Banking franchise advises across the full spectrum of transactions—M&A, divestitures, joint ventures, and shareholder advisory—and raises capital through equity, equity‑linked, and debt markets, as well as private capital and structured solutions. Spanning biopharma, medtech, tools and diagnostics, and services like providers, payers, and healthtech, we combine deep sector expertise with the reach of a global platform, integrating banking and markets capabilities to help clients fund innovation, execute with certainty, and build resilient, growing enterprises.
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13TH CHINA HEALTHCARE SUMMIT
China’s biotech sector is transforming how new medicines are discovered, tested and brought to market.
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BayHelix Group
BayHelix Group is a non-profit, invitation-only organization of business leaders of Chinese heritage that fosters the growth of the life sciences and healthcare industry around the Pacific Rim and beyond. Founded in 2001, BayHelix has grown to over 300 members throughout the U.S., Canada, and Greater China. The membership base covers virtually all of the world’s top pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies, as well as leading services and investment firms. Over one third of the members are senior executives, over 80% have PhDs in the life sciences, and nearly half have MBAs from the leading business schools in U.S.
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Lychee Group
Our mission is simple: create the best, most innovative events to provide you with the latest business information and the greatest opportunity to network with your peers and new potential business partners.
Since 2008, Lychee Group has helped launch some of the longest running and most reputable life sciences conferences in China including: ChinaTrials: Clinical Development Leaders' Summit, China Healthcare Investment Conference (CHIC), China Medical Affairs Summit, DeviceChina, BioCentury's China Healthcare Summit and Healthcare Capital & Connections Summit (HCCS).
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PharmaDJ
Cofounded by experienced journalists and editors in 2014, PharmaDJ is the leading business intelligence and media portal for Pharmaceutical and Biotech industry in China. Since then, it has built a wide platform to serve the industry need. Now, it provides different services including business intelligence, business strategy consulting and conference/training program to its readers and clients. With the editorial team located in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, Suzhou, New Jersey and Hawii, our focus covers the entire drug life cycle, from early drug research, translational science, clinical development, commercial, market access and PR communication strategies. Every day, our voice reaches thousands of industry executives, investors and regulators through our multi-media platforms that consist of website, WeChat, Xueqiu, Toutiao, LinkedIn and more. With the mission to become the lighthouse for the Chinese pharmaceutical industry, we will continue our journey to facilitate the development of pharmaceutical industry.
In Collaboration with
Shanghai Center of Biomedicine Development
Established in 1994, Shanghai Center of Biomedicine Development (SCBD) is an second-class scientific research institution directly administrated by Science & Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (STCSM). The main functions include undertaking researches related to technological innovation and industrial development in the fields of life sciences and biomedicine in Shanghai, common technology R&D, project management and services, construction of sci-tech innovation bases, transformation of scientific and technological achievements, investment promotion and enterprise services, talent training, as well as management services for human genetic resources and laboratory animals.