December 1, 2015
Hosted a delegation of senior leaders from Taikang Life Insurance, China. CBA and Taikang leaders explored future collaboration opportunities, including jointly establishing symposium/forum in China.
November 23, 2015
CBA hosted a delegation of biopharmaceutical leaders from Simcere and BioSciKin. CBA also organized a lab tour as well as a bio-manufacture facility tour in MedImmune.
October 24, 2015
Board of Directors and Executive Committee Leadership Retreat, The Bolger Conference Center, Potomac, Maryland
October 22, 2015
CBA hosted a group of 17delegation from CFDA, most of them are reviewers and managers. A F2F round-table discussion meeting was held followed by a dinner event.
September 23, 2015
Attended the ” 2015 High-End Talent Overseas Hi-tech Bioforum” in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Strengthened the collaboration with several high-tech parks in Sichuan.
September 6, 2015
Annual members’ picnic co-organized with CSSA in Cabin John Regional Park, MD.
July 17, 2015
Hosted a meeting with a Jiangsu delegation led by Simcere and other biopharmaceutical leaders and Montgomery County Officials at the Germantown Innovation Center for unique collaboration opportunities of bio-companies in Montgomery county.
July 3-10, 2015
Participated in the post-conference project fairs in Changzhou, Gaochun, and Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
July 1-3, 2015
Established new strategic collaboration with Nanjing QiaoBan, Jiangsu QiaoBan and SinoBioWay.
June 28-30, 2015
Successfully held the 20th CBA Annual Conference entitled “Opportunities in Emerging Markets for Biopharmaceutical Development and Commercialization” inLianYunGang, Jiangsu, China. Over 500 attendees, about 30 sponsors including Keynote speaker Dr.Barry K. Sharpless, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.
June 26-28, 2015
Successfully held 2015 Hefei International Symposium on Bio-Med Innovation and Entrepreneurship & CBA 20th Anniversary Conference in Hefei Chaohu Economic Development Zone, Anhui, China.
June 8-12, 2015
CBA sponsored MD Governor’s trade trip to China and agreed on long term strategic collaborations.
June 1, 2015
Coordinated with Bradley Gillenwater of Maryland State Department of Business & Economic Development to hold a very successful state evening dinner event hosted by the new Governor Larry Hogan and his wife. CBA was one of the sponsors for this event. Several Chinese biopharma companies started real processes to start their operation in Maryland and Montgomery County.
April 29, 2015
Attended the Szent-Gyorgyi Prize Award Ceremony Honoring Dr.
Frederich W. Alt. Networking with prominent people in biomedical fields and invited them to CBA annual meetings for collaboration opportunities in Montgomery County.
April 25, 2015
Hosted a special meeting with the Delegation from Xiuzhou district of Jiaxin county from HangZhou province. Introduced the advantages of establishing biopharmaceutical collaboration with Montgomery County.
April 25, 2015
Held the” 2015 Career Development Workshop”,over 100 attendees and invited LCDR QiaoYuBobo, Wanjun Chen, Samuel Tinsing Mok, CIA,CGFM; Milos Dokmanovic, Kun Yao, gave speeches, and encouraged younger professionals to develop their own career path.
April 12, 2015
Participated in the first innovation and investment affairs by UCTID (Center for US-China Technology, Innovation & Development).There were representatives from China techparks such as TEDA(Tianjin), Ningbo and VC from China, Silicon Valley(TEEC Angel Fund, TAF), NewYork, and DC.
March 25, 2015
Participated in Chinese Investment in Maryland Showcase event organized by Maryland Department of Business & Economic Development. CBA was one of the sponsors for this event. It was a very successful event, many highly valuable Chinese companies came and visit
Maryland,showed their interests to invest in Maryland(attachment1)
March 11-14, 2015
Visited Lianyungang(LYG) and hold a formal preparation meeting the CBA20th annual meeting. The CBA team also visited Anhui Chaohu, decided to invite the Secretary of the State to join the event, strengthen the collaboration of Maryland and Anhui as Sister States of 30 years.
February 5, 2015
Held the preparation meeting with JSQB and LYG for the 20th annual conference on June 29-30th.Visited Chaohu, Anhui for potential collaboration to hold a celebration event for CBA on June27th.
January 24, 2015
Successfully held CBA new year gala, more than 200 guests attended the event. Reported the status of CBA in 2014 and announced the CBA plan for the year of 2015.