On May 8-9, Prof. Wu Dan led an SJTU delegation to visit the BGI Genomics in Shenzhen and was warmly greeted by President Xu Xun of the company. During the visit, the two sides had rewarding discussions on platform construction, research, and talent training cooperation.
On the afternoon of May 8, the delegation visited the BGI Genomics in Yantian District, Shenzhen, and on the morning of May 9, they visited the National Gene Bank in Dapeng District. The two sides had extensive discussions on joint cultivation of students, demonstration application, and co-construction of technology platform, and reached an agreement of in-depth cooperation.
BGI Genomics is a world-renowned provider of sequencing technology and is developing into a large high-tech company in health and related industries based on its advantages in gene technology. BGI is a public welfare research organization that undertakes the construction of the national gene bank, which is built according to the layout of three banks (wet bank, information bank, and live bank) and two platforms (gene sequencing platform and gene editing platform), and is one of the few comprehensive national gene banks in the world at present.
