Galatech 2025 | Shanghai, China

Introduction

The field of biopharma has always been at the forefront of global scientific, medical, and commercial innovation. From gene editing and personalized medicine to cell therapy and novel treatment options, biopharma is evolving at an unprecedented pace, offering new therapeutic choices to patients worldwide.

The 4th World Congress of Biopharm Industry Development (BID-2025) will take place in Fengxian, Shanghai, from September 24-26, 2025, with the theme "Bridging Global High-end Talents, Empowering Industrial Innovation". This conference aims to be one of the most significant events in the global biopharma field in 2025, providing an exceptional platform for exchange, collaboration, and the shaping of the future direction of the biopharmaceutical industry.

The conference will feature a variety of activities, including: Keynote speeches by leading experts, scientific forums and panel discussions, Exhibitions and poster presentations, Networking opportunities, Site visits. In addition, seven specialized forums will focus on key areas of biopharma, including: Frontier Research in Drug Discovery, Cutting-Edge Drug Discovery Technologies, Drug Discovery Chemistry Innovation, Novel Drug Delivery Technologies and Systems, Gene and Cell Therapy Innovation & Development, Next-Generation Protein and Peptide Drugs, Pharmaceutical Process Development & Manufacturing.

As always, this conference is dedicated to fostering mutual support and intellectual exchange among scientists and industry leaders from around the globe. We sincerely invite global talents to join us in Shanghai, where they can contribute to revitalizing international cooperation and advancing the Chinese biomedicine industry to the forefront of global innovation.

Distinguished Speakers

Biopharm Industry Development Sector
Balazs Sarkadi Research Professor at Semmelweis University, Hungary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences	Olivier Gascuel Research Director, CNRS, France Member of the French Academy of Science	Ten Feizi Professor and Director of the Glycosciences Laboratory, Imperial College London, UK Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences	Lee Jia Professor, Institute of Oceanography, Minjiang University, China Academician of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences	Sergey Suchkov Professor, Center for the Study of Human Photosynthesis, Mexico Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences	Yongxiang Zhao Vice Chancellor & Professor, Guangxi Medical University, China Academician of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences
Alexander Tuzikov Head of Mathematical Cybernetics Department of the United Institute of Informatics Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Belarus Corresponding Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus	Zhongchao Han President & CEO, Beijing Health & Biotech Corporation, China Corresponding Member of French National Academy of Medicine Member of French National Academy of Technologies	Shuxiang Guo Chair Professor, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, China Fellow of the Engineering Academy of Japan	Qiao Li Professor, University of Michigan, USA	Xiaoliang Wang President, Thousand Dimensions (Beijing) Science and Technology Co. Ltd, China	Gerhard Jahn Professor, University of Tubingen, Germany
Chuanhua Yu Deputy Dean and Professor, School of public Health, Wuhan University, China	Wu Yuming Vice President of Hebei Medical University, China	Xuemei Zhang Vice Dean, School of Pharmacy, East China Normal University, China	Yi Zhang Academic Vice President, Zhengzhou University School of Medical Sciences, China	Jinqiang Wang Deputy Director, Institute of Pharmaceutics Zhejiang University, China	Xifeng Wu Dean, School of Public Health; Vice President, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China
Muxiang Zhou Professor, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, USA	Jacek Kubiak Research Director/Professor, French National Research Institute, France	Xiaoyang Qi Professor, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, USA	Farhid Hemmatzadeh Associate Professor of Virology, The University of Adelaide, Australia	Lilya Maya Ziad VP & Global Medical Head, Sanofi, USA	Chunlin Xin Vice President, CanSino Biologics Inc., China
Holger Krenz Vice President of Global Business Development, Gerresheimer, Germany	Christopher Missling President & CEO, Anavex Life Sciences, USA	Lixia Wang SVP, Rigel Pharmaceuticals Inc., USA	Meiling Li Principal Scientist, Technical Project Leader, F.Hoffmann-La Roche, Switzerland	Chaitanya Suri Head of Procurement Medical Affairs, Real World and M & A, R & D Procurement, Novartis, India	Whitney Liu Principal Scientist, Bristol Myers Squibb, USA
Qun (Max) Dang President and CBO, Genuine Biotech Co., Ltd, China	George Zhang Chairman, Akeylink Biotechnology, China	Jieyi Wang Chairman and CEO, Lyvgen Biopharma, China	Jukka Kervinen Global Scientific Expert of Chromatography, Tosoh Bioscience, USA	Helena Shifrin Development Director, Taro Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., Israel	Bo Meng Associate Director, WuXi Biologics, China
Andrea Bonanno Founder and Chief Executive Officer, SABIM Corporation SAGL, Switzerland	Urban Fagerholm CEO, Prosilico AB, Sweden	Wilfried Dathe External Consultant and Head of Medical Research, Heck Bio-Pharma GmbH, Germany	Umar Hayat Founder & President, Hayat Pharmaceuticals Consulting, USA	Markus Roucka Head of Business Development, Tentamus Group, Austria	Wei Qu Chief Technology Officer, Shenzhen ScienCare. Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., China
Li Xinfang CEO, MabPlex International Co. Ltd., China	Yongzeng Wang Chief Technology Officer, Heyuan Biotechnology (Tianjin) Co., Ltd., China	Jian Ni Chief Executive Officer, Nuance Biotech (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd., China	David R. Tabatadze President and CEO, ZATA Pharmaceuticals, Inc., USA	Nick Zhang Chair & CEO, MEDx Translational Medicine, China	Carrie Duan Executive Vice President of Clinical Development, Elixiron Immunotherapeutics, China
Yunchun Shen Founder, Shanghai Yueru Tech, China	Hari Sharma Professor and Director of Research, Uppsala University, Sweden	Ana Cristina Faria Ribeiro Professor, Chemistry Department, University of Coimbra, Portugal	Hwa-Chain Robert Wang Professor, University of Tennessee, USA	Adele Maria Muscolo Full Professor, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Italy	Etsuo Yonemochi Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, International University of Health and Welfare, Japan
Miguel A. Esteso Professor, Catholic University of Avila, USA	Antonio Iannetti Professor, University of Rome, Italy	Xiangshi Tan Professor, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, China	Xianpeng Ge Professor, Xuanwu Hospital Capital Medical University, China	Xingyuan Ma Professor, East China University of Science and Technology, China	Jun Xu Professor, Sun Yat-Sen University; Director of Research Center for Drug Discovery (RCDD), Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Mengxi Jiang Professor, Captial Medical University, China	Xiangyang Ye Professor, School of Pharmacy, Hangzhou Normal University, China	Chunmin Liang Professor, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, China	Chuanshu Huang Distinguished Professor, Senior PI of Oujiang Laboratory, Wenzhou Medical University, China	Shengyong Xu Professor, Institute of Physical Electronics, Peking University, China	Chunjiu Zhong Director, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, China
Lijuan Chen Professor & Vice Director of State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, Sichuan University, China	Hui Qian Professor, School of Medicine, Jiangsu University, China	Siyong Huang Director, Department of Hematology, Xi'an International Medical Center Hospital, China	Kecheng Zhou Professor, School of Life Sciences, Anhui Medical University, China	Ramendra Pati Pandey Professor, Department of Biotechnology & Microbiology, SRM University, India	Zhankui Sun Professor, School of Pharmacy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Rui M. M. Brito Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Coimbra; CEO, BSIM Therapeutics, Portugal	Jun Fang Associate Professor, Sojo University Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Japan	Haiping Zhang Associated Professor, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China	Leona Raskova Kafkova Associate Professor, Palacky University, Czech Republic	Cunzhong Yuan Associate Professor, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, China	Shuang Tang Principal Investigator, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, China
Synthetic Biology Sector
Qiang Wu Distinguished Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China	Renxiang Tan Professor and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology of Nanjing University, China	Michael P. Timko Professor, University of Virginia, USA	Peter Sachsenmeier President, International Innovation Center, Hankou University, China; Professor, Unversity of Oxford, UK Member of the German National Academy for Science and Engineering	Dan Wang Professor, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, China	Cheng Li Research Scientist of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Walter Holweger Visiting Professor, University of Southampton, UK	Tingting Deng Professor, Chinese Academy of Quality and Inspection & Testing, China	Ji Cao Professor, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, China	Zhang Xin Professor, Executive Dean of Gannan Innovation and Translational Medicine Research Institute, Gannan Medical University, China	Chun Loong Ho Associate Professor, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Deputy Director of the Asian Synthetic Biology Association (ASBA Center)	Yaojun Tong Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Senolytics & Longevity Sector
Yong Shen Professor, University of Science and Technology of China, China	Jiankang Liu Distinguished Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong University; Dean, institute of Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, China	John Van Limburg Stirum Director & Founder of SGK Medical Center, Switzerland Vice President of Swiss Society for Anti-Aging Medicine and Prevention	Mario Barbagallo Professor and Director of the Geriatric Unit, University of Palermo; Past President, International Association of Geriatrics, Italy	Feng Cao Professor and Executive Deputy Director, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, China	Gaiqing Wang Professor of Neurology and Director, Sanya Central Hospital, China
Pierre Miossec Professor, University of Lyon, France	Guanchang Cheng Dean & Professor, Huaihe Hospital of Henan University, China	Constantin Munteanu Associate Professor, University of Medicine and Pharmacy - Iasi, Romania	Jiaojiao Bai Deputy Director, Department of Nursing, Huadong Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, China	Weidong Le Professor, Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences; Director of Center for Clinical Research on Neurological Diseases, China	Chunhong Ma Vice Dean, Shandong University Cheeloo College of Medicine, China
Beauty Products Industry Sector
Evgeniya Ranneva Chief Operating Officer, Skin Tech Pharma Group, Spain	Peter Verheyen Past President, International Society For Oral Laser Applications, Belgium	Tiziana Lazzari Director, Lazzari Medical Center, Italy	Choi Kyu Jin Director, ILLUME Plastic Surgery Clinic, South Korea	Simona Tecco Associate Professor, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Italy	Dehua Liu Professor and Director, Institute of Applied Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
Enzyme Innovation Sector
Hao Liang Professor, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China	Yajun Wang Deputy Director, Institute of Children's Respiratory Diseases, Shunde Women and Children's Hospital, Guangdong Medical University, China	Shou-Kuan Tsai President & CEO, BiOptic, Inc., China	Sumin Bian Associate Professor, Westlake University, China	Muhammad Anwar Associate Professor, Shenzhen University, China	Weizhuo Xu Associate Professor, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, China