Introduction to Shenzhen Bay Laboratory

Shenzhen Bay Laboratory (Guangdong Provincial Laboratory for Life Information and Biomedicine) is a major strategic deployment of Guangdong Province and Shenzhen City to build the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao International Science and Technology Innovation Center and a comprehensive national science center. It is a major innovation carrier fully supported in the construction of a leading demonstration zone of socialism with Chinese characteristics in Shenzhen.

Facing the forefront of world science and technology and people's life and health, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory closely focuses on the national strategic layout, and is guided by collaborative efforts to tackle major scientific challenges in life and health. It focuses on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of major diseases such as cancer, metabolism, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, and infectious diseases, and features IT+BT integration and multidisciplinary intersection. It conducts research in the fields of disease mechanism, life information, innovative drugs, and medical imaging. In the Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, major disease issues and cutting-edge discipline technologies interact, breaking traditional discipline boundaries with a research unit matrix design, and fully promoting interdisciplinary advantages; With a dual wheel drive of free exploration and collaborative research, a combination of scattered reconnaissance and positional breakthroughs, it conducts more comprehensive and accurate research on life and health issues, and practices a new model of nationwide scientific research.

The laboratory is committed to creating an efficient innovation system and a vibrant innovation ecosystem, creating a sophisticated technology support platform, promoting the transformation of research paradigms for efficient allocation of innovation elements, and stimulating the creativity of various talents. The laboratory has gathered advantageous forces in the life sciences to jointly build a collaborative innovation community in the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao, and strive to become a world-class technological innovation highland.

Introduction to the Institute of Chemical Biology

The Institute of Chemical Biology is a research institution in Shenzhen Bay Laboratory that conducts interdisciplinary research in chemical biology and innovative drug application and transformation cooperation. The Institute will focus on the most advantageous research fields of both sides, conducting corresponding research in important chemical and biological fields such as synthetic chemistry, natural products, glycobiology, chemical genetics, and proteomics. At the same time, it will also conduct transformation research in several fields such as cancer, metabolism, liver disease, inflammation, and degenerative diseases, to assist in the research and development of innovative drugs in the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao, and play a creative driving role, Strengthen Shenzhen's core engine function for the development of the life and health industry in the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao, and enhance the development level and comprehensive strength of the life and health industry in the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao.