HONG KONG,
CHINA -�Media OutReach - 2 August 2019 – Great Bay Bio, a leading biotechnology company dedicated to
innovative biologics CMC (Chemistry Manufacturing and Controls) and development
of biologics development big data platform, the board is pleased to announce the
introduction of a new non-executive director, Mr. William Kung. This is now a
critical time for Great Bay Bio for rapid development of its core competitive
competencies. The addition of industrial elites from different professional
backgrounds will help accelerate certain milestones, building long-term value
for the company.
Mr. Kung
graduated from York University in Canada with master degree in economics, and is
currently an AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountant). Mr. Kung
has worked for seven years in Principal Global Investors LLC in Hong Kong and USA. He has helped manage more
than $9 billion in global assets for customers including global sovereign funds
such as GIC in Singapore. During his tenure at SouthWest Securities
International Securities Ltd., he was responsible for quantitative trading of
financial products in Hong Kong and PRC. And in the last three years, he has
continuously outperformed the Chinese state-owned enterprise index. Since June
2019, Mr. Kung has been responsible for establishment of investment funds as
the Executive Director in the asset management department of HeungKong Financial
Group, and has led the Post Acquisition Management in consumer and technology
industries.
On Mr. Kung directorship,
Mr. Kingsley Leung said, “Mr. Kung’s arrival is well-timed, his strong
finance background and network with PRC and international investors will certainly
help our planned fund raising event later this year. Since our establishment, Great
Bay Bio has adhered to the vision that targets the world, not just China. We
want to effectively integrate global capital markets, biopharmaceutical industry,
and new technologies to help solve growing problems in drug development, such
as low R&D productivity. Any incremental improvement in drug development
can significantly reduce cost to our partners and, ultimately benefiting
patients by allowing new drugs to be offered at a lower price point. Mr. Kung’s
addition to the board can give us new perspective of achieving our mission and
vision from the point of view of stronger governance. Effective governance
structure is paramount in attracting new investors and strategic partners,
which are the key drivers of value generation in the near term. This is exactly
what Great Bay Bio needs most now. I would like to deliver a warm welcome to
Mr. Kung for joining the team, and I look forward to working closely with him.”
Brief Introduction to Other Members of the Board
Mr. Kingsley
Leung, Chairman of the Board and Co-Founder of Great Bay Bio, graduated from
Imperial College London and the University of Oxford with life sciences
degrees. Recently, he also attained an EMBA from Tsinghua-INSEAD joint program.
Prior to the founding of the Great Bay Bio, Mr. Leung is the Chairman of
Uni-Bio Science Group, a listed Biopharmaceutical company?HK0690?in HKEx main board
and has years of broad experience in fund raising, management and
governance for biopharmaceutical enterprises.
He has also worked in a biopharmaceutical start-up in Singapore as a BD manager,
successfully licensing in the next generation oncology, inflammation and
respiratory drugs from MNCs. Mr. Leung also has experience in the finance
industry where he worked in a budge bracket investment bank and family office,
and is currently a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Dr. Michael
Chan?CEO
and Co-Founder of Great Bay Bio, graduated from the Doctor of Biochemistry,
University of Georgia, USA. He has more than 30 years of rich experience in
biomedical research and development and projects’ management. He has
successively held senior management positions from different famous
pharmaceutical companies based in the USA and China. In particular, he has ever
been a distinguished leader for 5 projects of Biosimilar and innovative
macromolecule’s IND Application during the same period within 3 three years. Dr.
Chan has published more than 18 articles and patents in international SCI
journals.
Headquartered
in Hong Kong, the CMC/CDMO platform of Great Bay Bio was established in 2002,
where originally more than 3100 million yuan was invested into R&D
equipment. The CMC/CDMO platform has independent and integrated technology
platform for drug R&D and large-scale preparation. The company has a strong
existing track record of developing customized CMC packages for products
entering NDA stage, some of which are national class I projects of innovative
biological New drugs.
Great Bay Bio
is leveraging its advantages of an established platform for development of a
new vertical in CMC. Specifically, Great Bay Bio strives to utilize AI and other
cutting-edge technologies to shorten CMC development timelines, lower certain cost,
and increase efficiency of CMC. With such a platform, it could expand and
acquire new customer base, and brings fundamental changes to drug development,
and ultimately benefiting society and patient.
The platform
has been recognized and certificated as “Patent Fostering
Enterprise”, “Patent Pilot Enterprise”, “National High-tech
Enterprise”, “Dongguan New R&D Institution”, “Guangdong
Top Ten Foreign-funded R&D Center” and “Guangdong Genetically
Pharmaceutical Engineering Research Center”. Since 2006, it has undertaken
a number of government projects and obtained crucial breakthroughs in key areas
of Guangdong and Hong Kong. Several provincial and national projects, such as
“National Major New Drug Innovation”, have been funded by government
support of more than 20 million yuan.
The CMC platform
encompasses an area of over 3100 square meter, and has a whole set of advanced
biopharmaceutical research and development hardware and facilities, with key equipment
from well-class brands such as Sartorius, Bio-Rad, GE Healthcare, and Waters.
The pilot workshop is designed strictly in accordance with GMP requirements.
The overall clean room standards of C-level and partial A-level.
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