Yu-Ih Hou – Mayor, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Yu-Ih Hou, mayor of New Taipei City, introduces the city and highlights its key competitive advantages and strategic direction of growth as Taiwan’s top economic and cultural destination. Over…
Founded in 1994, Burrill & Company is a diversified global financial services firm focused on the life sciences industry. With $1.5 billion in assets under management, the firm’s businesses include venture capital/private equity, merchant banking, and media. By leveraging the scientific and business networks of its team, Burrill & Company has established unrivaled access and visibility in the life sciences industry. This unique combination of resources and capabilities enables the company to provide life sciences companies with capital, transactional support, management expertise, insight, market intelligence, and analysis through its investments, conferences, and publications. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company oversees a global network of offices throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.
G. Steven Burrill founded Burrill & Company as a logical extension of his 40-year involvement in the growth and prosperity of the biotechnology industry. Mr. Burrill has been an active advisor and catalyst in some of the industry’s most notable companies and transactions. Mr. Burrill’s close involvement and respected position within the industry has positioned the firm as a prominent deal-maker and facilitator of industry partnerships and alliances, all of which fosters a robust deal flow. Further contributing to this deal flow are: the scientific and business networks of its investment team; the Advisory Boards; the strategic and financial network of its limited partners; and the close relationships developed with numerous life science companies and management as a result of Burrill’s visibility, reputation, and the firm’s partnering and alliance work.
Yu-Ih Hou, mayor of New Taipei City, introduces the city and highlights its key competitive advantages and strategic direction of growth as Taiwan’s top economic and cultural destination. Over…
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Arthur Kadurin, CEO of Insilico Medicine Taiwan, tells us how artificial intelligence can change drug discovery process using the innovative generative adversarial networks (GANs) approach. AI is the future…
Ed Deng, co-founder and CEO of Health2Sync, a digital health startup specialized in diabetes management, shares how the application is revolutionizing the ability of patients to take control of the…
Tsung-Tsong Wu, minister without portfolio, offers insights into the current state of Taiwan’s biomedical landscape three years after the administration’s Biomedical Industry Innovation Program was put into place to bolster…
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Dr James Chih-Hsin Yang, director of National Taiwan University Hospital’s department of oncology, speaks about oncology in Taiwan and the role that the NTU network plays in the island’s oncology…
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