A “Special Promotion Meeting of SJTU Translational Medical Instrument Sharing and Biomedical Technology Service” was jointly held by the Science and Technology Commission of Minhang District and SJTU Institute of Translational Medicine on the morning of December 24, 2020. The event aims to give full play to the advantages of talents and resources of SJTU, promote the sharing of innovation resources between universities and enterprises to improve the innovation capability of the biomedical industry in Minhang District.

The Science and Technology Commission of Minhang District invited representatives from biomedical enterprises, and experts of SJTU to attend the meeting. Gu Jianping, Deputy Director of the Committee, gave an overall introduction to the purpose and significance of enhancing the innovation source value of Zero Bay and the importance of the series activities involving universities and institutes, which intend to further promote industry-research integration.

Prof. Sun Jielin of the Institute of Translational Medicine generally introduced the construction and operation of the translational medicine facilities to the guests. He said that as the first batch of National Facility for Translational Medicine in China, it is fully open to domestic and foreign users, and has been built into a new national public platform with large-scale equipment, integrated service functions, and systematic technical capabilities.

In the special activity, the enterprise representatives were showed around the public instrument platform of translational medicine and various major instrument facilities at SJTU and expressed that this meaningful visit will help to solve the key difficulties in the process of enterprise technology research and development. At the meeting, the representatives of enterprise and technical experts of various platforms had in-depth communication and expressed their wishes for further cooperation.