The 17th „C.C. Tan Life Science Award“ ceremony was held in Shenyang, China, on October 9th. Dr. Li CHEN, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hua Medicine, was awarded the „C.C. Tan Life Science Industrialization Award“. C.C. Tan Life Science Award has the highest honor known as „the Chinese Nobel“ in life science.
„C.C. Tan Life Science Award“ was proposed by Mr. Jiazhen TAN, one of the founders of modern genetics in China and an outstanding scientist and educator in modern China. This award is a high recognition of Dr. Chen’s outstanding contributions to the industrialization of life science achievements, and a full affirmation of his decades-long efforts in Chinese biopharmaceutical industry.
With more than 30 years of experience in new drug R&D and management, Dr. Chen returned to Shanghai from the U.S. in 2004, and participated in the establishment of Roche China R&D Center, the first R&D center of a multinational company in Shanghai, bringing the advanced experience, talent concept, technical standards and quality management system of international new drug R&D to China, and contributing to the establishment of the environment of China’s biopharmaceutical industry.
