The meeting was hosted by Ma Xingrui, Guangdong's governor and co-chairman of SGCC and Ong Ye Kung, Singapore's Minister for Health and co-chairman of SGCC.

The total investment of the Biosyngen Biological Production Base is estimated to be approximately 500 million yuan (S$100 million), of which 280 million yuan will be used for equity financing, while the remaining 220 million yuan will be deployed to lease the space and facilities. The completed facility will become a comprehensive hub for R&D, manufacturing and marketing of cell immunotherapies.

Biosyngen Chairman Zhang Qiong and SCI Group Chairman Hong Hansong signed the contract for the project at the meeting. Biosyngen CEO and chief medical officer Dr. Han Deping said that their core team was very grateful to SCI Group for its recognition and strong support of Biosyngen. The cooperation is on track to help Biosyngen further expand its lineup of technology platforms and develop safe, effective and practical innovative cell therapies. The Biosyngen team, known for their innovation, pioneering spirit and strong execution, plans to continue with the development of products for diverse scenarios, while combining in-house R&D capabilities with external cooperation, a formula that has already proven successful. To date, the company has established close ties with many leading research institutions in Germany, Australia, and Singapore, helping to empower clinical research on existing projects. Moreover, the cooperation will greatly raise the efficiency of Biosyngen's processes for clinical research, the ramp up to mass production and commercialization, while, at the same time, accelerate cooperation with the industry to benefit cancer patients not only in China but also around the globe.

The Biosyngen Biological Production Base will be located at China Nano Valley in China-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City, an industry park built and run by SCI Group. Production at the facility is scheduled to start by the end of 2021.

The facility will be designed, built and managed in strict accordance with GMP standards and customized to create fully-automated, fully-enclosed cellular drug production lines that can meet the needs for the development and manufacturing of multiple tumor-based CAR-T/TCR-T and other cellular drugs. The output is expected to fully satisfy the needs of cancer patients in China for cell immunotherapies, while the facility will help form a biological production chain in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area that provides cutting-edge and high-end immune cell therapies, ultimately making an important contribution to the biotech sectors in both China and Singapore. 

Singapore's Biosyngen gathers scientific research experts from 5 countries, focusing on unconquered cancer treatment fields

Biosyngen is one of the first Singapore-based scientific research companies to set up a production facility in China-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City. It has the first B-level GMP clinical laboratory in Huangpu District, Guangzhou, as well as a well-established production and quality system cell industrialization platform.

The company has grown rapidly, having set for itself the goal of becoming Singapore's first listed cell therapy biotech company in China-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City, and, by virtue of doing so, be perfectly positioned to take the lead in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area's biomedical sector.

Biosyngen possesses the world's leading innovative T-cell immunotherapies, with top researchers from Singapore, China, Germany, Australia, and France. Combining in-house R&D, collaborative development, inbound licensing, alongside other diversified and multi-level capabilities, the company has been committed to unlocking the unconquered areas of cancer treatment through the utilization of tumor immune cell therapies to fundamentally eliminate tumors, benefiting cancer patients not only in China but also worldwide.