Soft sofas, table football, cabinets full of snacks... Just a turn away, emerges a cool laboratory filled with all kinds of sophisticated measuring instruments. After a stimulating brainstorming session in the meeting room, colleagues can simply take a few steps and bask in the sun on the sunny terrace.
It's like a scientific maze, or a harbor, attracting creators, investors, and dreamers, allowing innovators seeking various surprises to embark on a warm scientific journey in this scientific harbor.
On December 4th, the opening ceremony and biomedical industrial innovation salon of Bay Charm (Guangming Biomedical Innovation Center) was held at the Weiguang Life Science Park in Xinhu Street, Guangming District, Shenzhen City. Over two hundred people, including municipal and district leaders, leaders of Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, representatives from Shenzhen Weiguang Biological Co., Ltd., resident companies, investment institutions, and cooperative units attended the event.
According to reports, Bay Charm was established through cooperation between the People's Government of Guangming District, Shenzhen and Shenzhen Bay Laboratory. True to its name, the innovation center is like a harbor with strong magnetic attraction. Its main responsibility is to support scientists in entrepreneurship and serve early-stage biomedical enterprises, create high-level models, and establish a showplace for Shenzhen's original innovative benchmark projects and a gathering place for biomedical resources.
Hu Xiaojun, Secretary of the Party Committee of Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, said in his speech that the current and future period is an important opportunity for the accelerated evolution of biotechnology, rapid growth in demand for life and health, and rapid development of the biological industry. The Guangming Biomedical Innovation Center will adhere to the principles of openness, fairness, science, and order, integrate biological research, talents, and technical resources of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, continuously deepen the scope of cooperation, promote the construction of industrial operation entities, build the industrial value chain of biomedicine, biotechnology, and instrument equipment, focus on disease areas such as tumor screening and treatment, cardiovascular, nervous systems, infection, and immunity, feature IT+BT integration and multidisciplinary cross, and highlight research in the field of biomedicine, biotechnology, and instrument equipment, serving the transformation of biomedical achievements of international and domestic first-class research institutions, universities, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and other innovative subjects, empowering the industrial development of biomedicine in Guangming District, building a demonstration base for the pharmaceutical industry in Guangming District, and driving the economic development of the biomedical industry in the region.
Bay Charm is located in the Weiguang Life Science Park in the Guangming Science City area. This scientific park focuses on synthetic biology, neuroscience, and is surrounded by Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, major technological infrastructure for synthetic biology research, major technological infrastructure for brain analysis and simulation, Sun Yat-sen University Shenzhen Campus, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, among other universities, research institutions, and large-scale facilities. In its daily operations, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory is responsible for providing operational support and shared instrument equipment. Entrepreneurial teams that are based here can have access to the shared facilities and instruments through collaboration with Shenzhen Bay Laboratory and Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation.
Bay Charm, which officially opened on December 4th, focuses on revolutionary technologies in CGT (Cellular Gene Therapy), AI Pharmaceutical, and advanced biomedical imaging using high-standard incubation spaces, shared instrument equipment, professional operations, and entrepreneurial empowerment services. The center is committed to bridging the "last mile" between original innovation and industrialization and aims to create a world-class one-stop biomedical acceleration platform.、
Hu Xiaojun stated that after the Bay Charm is put into operation, they will continue to act as a bridge between scientists, entrepreneurs, investment institutions, and the government. Additionally, they will enhance resource integration externally and provide services to start-up enterprises internally, striving to incubate innovative enterprises within the next 5-10 years that develop new drugs, new technologies, and new instrument equipment with international competitiveness. This initiative aims to drive high-quality development in the biopharmaceutical industry, nurturing biopharmaceutical technology enterprises with genuine original innovation capabilities in Guangming District, Shenzhen City, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, as well as across the whole country.
Observations indicate that the newly inaugurated incubation space includes independent offices and laboratories for different entrepreneurial teams, equipped with basic instrument equipment. Within the shared space, there are communal leisure areas, shared meeting rooms, and a shared instrument equipment platform. The unified "BAYCHARM" logo is prominently displayed throughout, emphasizing the theme "Join us in Bay Charm to contribute to medical science." Wu Tong, the Operations Director of Bay Charm, revealed that four companies have already established their presence within the center, with a total financing amount exceeding 30 million RMB, 100% of which represent projects initiated by scientists and doctors.
