The Chinese Healthcare Market

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Thursday, 15 January 2009
(Hosted by Olswang)
(Co-organiser: Asia-Pacific Technology Network)
(Co-organiser: London Biotechnology Network)

Chair:

• Tony Jones, Director of Biotechnology & Healthcare, London First

Speakers:

• Dr Futao Chen. Minister Counsellor, Embassy of the People's Republic of China
  • An Overview of China's health scene (working title)
• Stephen Reese, Partner, Olswang
  • Supply Chain issues and the Law: quality assurance, outsourcing dynamics etc (working title)
• Professor Chris Branford-White, Director, Institute for Health Research and Policy, London Metropolitan University
  • Approaches to the Modernisation of Traditional Chinese Medicine

This is the latest in our APBiomed series of seminars, which deal with the Health and Pharmaceutical scene round Asia. In this seminar we will discuss the implications of the Healthcare reforms announced in October. We will also look at the debate over good laboratory/good manufacturing practices, which has come to the fore on the back of some recent contamination problems in China.

Location: Olswang, 90 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6XX (nearest tube station Holborn)
Timing: 17:30 - 1930 (Please arrive 15 minutes early to register)
Pricing:

• Free to Olswang clients and APTN annual subscribers
• £40 + VAT (Executives)
• £20 + VAT (Asian citizens/institutions, officials, executives from Small Companies)
• £10 + VAT (Academics),
• Free for the Media.

To Register: please send your details (name, institutional affiliation, email address, phone number) to biz@aptn.org

Mr. CHEN Futao
is currently the Minister Counsellor for Science and Technology, Chinese Embassy in London from September 2008.
CHEN began his duties as Executive Deputy Director-General of China Science and Technology Exchange Center (CSTEC) in April 2005 and then was later nominated as Director-General in September 2005.
He served as Consul (First Secretary, Counselor) of the S&T Group in the Chinese Consulate-General in San Francisco from May 1999 to April 2001; Counselor (Deputy Director-General level) in the S&T Division of the Chinese Embassy to Sweden from April 2001 to August 2004 and Counselor for Science and Technology in the Department of International Cooperation of MOST from August 2004 to May 2005.
Earlier in his career, CHEN served in the Personnel Bureau of the State Science and Technology Commission (SSTC) from July 1985 to July 1987. From July 1987 to May 1999, he was Principal Staff Member, then Deputy Director and Director in Foreign Affairs Bureau of SSTC.
CHEN graduated from Jilin University with BS in 1985 and later became an assistant research fellow.

Stephen Reese
Stephen is a partner in Olswang's IP group and head of the firm's life sciences practice.  He represents and advises a broad range of clients in relation to the protection, exploitation and enforcement of their intellectual property rights. He has significant experience representing those clients within the life sciences and technology fields and advises on commercial transactions including research & development, licensing, acquisitions, outsourcing and due diligence. In connection with his life sciences practice Stephen also advises clients on UK and EU regulatory matters within that sector.  

Professor Chris Branford-White
Director Institute for Health Research and Policy, London Metropolitan University. He leads projects on:

• Isolation and characterisation of natural products from plants for pharmaceutical purposes (with CENSA, Cuba and Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine).
• Influence of diet on children infected with HIV/AID.
• Health inequalities and the delivery of health delivery strategies (with Constanza University, Romania, Cujae, Cuba).
• Widening participation and access into science through health (with University of Plymouth.