In the middle of March, a good news came from Europe - Nanjing Jiangbei New Area enterprise drug Jie Ankang, its core product "tinengotinib" global multicenter registration of phase 3 clinical trials approved by the European Medicines Agency, was granted orphan drug certification for the treatment of biliary tract cancer. cancer.
As an enterprise focusing on the R&D of small molecule innovative drugs, PharmaJet Ankang landed in the Biomedical Valley of Jiangbei New District in 2016. Its founder, Wu Yongqian, is an alumnus of the Chemistry Department of Nanjing University in the class of 1981, who returned to China to start his own business after working for many years in an overseas pharmaceutical company and bringing with him a wealth of experience in the industry.
Several years have passed
Wu Yongqian met many in the new district
SDSU alumni with technology and dreams
They start businesses and land research here
Shining in their respective fields
without realizing it
They've already created a "Nanda" team.
A group of non-stop innovators
At the beginning of this year, the handheld nephropathy management instrument (handheld electrochemical analyzer) independently developed by Jingjie Technology, a company in the new area, took the product registration certificate, and its supporting creatinine test strips also entered the innovation channel.
A small instrument integrates creatinine, blood sugar, uric acid, hemoglobin, glomerular filtration rate and other testing and calculation items, with app or small program, to help chronic kidney disease patients and people with diabetes, gout and other people to monitor their health conditions at home, and keep away from the "silent health killer".
In addition to home health management products, Jintek has also launched a blood gas biochemistry analyzer that can be used by hospitals in the field of critical care. With a single blood draw, 34 indicators can be accessed in about 3 minutes to buy more time for the patient.
Behind the rapid growth of Jintek, the founder Qin Yu's decades of exploration is indispensable. Since graduating from Nanjing University in 1996, Qin Yu has studied, taught and practiced at home and abroad. Her rich experience also allowed her to see the problem that the blood gas analyzer, a testing product in the field of critical care, was monopolized by a few international giants due to its high development difficulty.
"If others can do it, can't we do it?" With the mission of serving the country with science and technology, Qin Yu went back to China to start his own business and transformed the scientific research results into reality. In just a few years, Jingjie Technology has more than 40 products on the market, and a series of "domestic firsts" and "industry firsts" from the new area to the world.
Toward scientific and technological innovation
It's been a long journey.
And many more innovators from SDSU
Writing new stories in the new district
Diocesan Pharmacare
Gao Xiang, a 1981 alumnus of the Department of Biology of Nanjing University, founded Jicui Pharmachem in 2017. As one of the first batch of new R&D institutions in Nanjing, the company has accumulated over 20,000 commercialized mouse models with independent intellectual property rights, and in April 2022, it successfully landed on the Science and Technology Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Ming Jie Pharmaceutical
The founder of Mingjie Pharmaceuticals, Gu Kai, is a 1993 alumnus of the Department of Chemistry of Nanjing University, and the company has now entered the Nanjing Listed Company Cultivation Pool; the "helmsman" of PharmaStone Technology is also a 1990 alumnus of the same department, and now this listed company has reached cooperation with almost all of the world's top 20 pharmaceutical companies.
Pohang Biotechnology
Cao Dan, a 2008 alumnus of Nanjing University's School of Life Sciences, founded Puguang Bio, which is in the field of chemiluminescence frequently "out of the circle" ......
From high-end medical devices
to innovative drugs to integrated R&D services
Alumni from SDSU put down roots in Medicine Valley
Leading one "star enterprise" after another to explode and growA number of new platforms for school-local cooperation
Mt Longwang downhill (idiom); fig. under the influence of the Dragon King
Not only ran out a number of "Nanda system" enterprises
There are also a number of platforms and research institutes for school-local cooperation
be based here
Early on, Jiangbei New Area and Nanjing University "hand in hand", the research resources and market demand close docking.
In 2019, the Nanchuang Institute of Chemistry and Life and Health was formed and operated in the Biomedical Valley of the new district. This new R&D institution, relying on the State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry of Nanjing University and led by academician Guo Zijian of Nanjing University, focuses on promoting the industrialization of scientific and technological achievements.
"We have now linked more than 10 universities and institutes, more than 20 listed companies, and more than 30 investment funds, and have incubated 23 technology-based companies such as Norin Bio and Colossus Bio."
off-platform
There are also a number of internships available.
Built in a park or business
When science and technology innovation in this hot land "seamless connection", a batch of NU alumni also came to bring more efficient transformation of results, closer cooperation, more innovative projects. With these projects as the origin, gradually string up the industrial chain, ecological chain, "alumni circle" also pry up one after another industrial clusters. Currently, "alumni economy" is becoming one of the driving forces of regional innovation and development. Not only the "Nanda Department", Jiangbei New Area will also join hands with the South University of Science and Technology, South University of Technology and other local universities to cultivate the soil of "alumni economy". In the future, there may be more academic gurus coming out of the campus and gathering here to continue the flame of innovation and entrepreneurship.
