Network Group BayHelix Links Life Sciences Leaders To Blaze New Trail In China – An Interview With PharmAsia News (Part 2 of 2)
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
BayHelix is a non-profit, invitation-only organization for ethnic Chinese leaders in the global life sciences arena. Created in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2001, BayHelix has since become a bridge linking 300-plus Chinese business, law and science professionals in the health care industry across the U.S., Canada and Greater China. Recently the chairman of BayHelix, James Zhu, managing partner of Perkins Coie's Beijing Office, and the group's two co-founders, Jonathan Wang, OrbiMed's managing director in Asia, and Steve Yang, vice president, Head of Asia R&D at Pfizer, sat down with PharmAsia News' Shanghai Bureau to talk about the founding and the future of BayHelix as well as the challenges and opportunities in China's life sciences sector.
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