The 2018 (5th) ChinaBio Partnering Forum (CBPF) kicked off at BioBAY, SIP on Apr 25, attracting biotech and pharma leaders from around the world along with hundreds of leading researchers from China's top universities and institutes for two days of productive partnering.

Sponsored by EBD Group, an international partnering firm dedicated to facilitating critical strategic connections that drive life science deal-making, the event was first introduced to BioBAY in 2009. It aims to highlight China's opportunities in life science development and draw on the wisdom from the whole biotech sector to tackle common challenges.

This year's event saw more efficient partnering with the assistance of partneringONE, EBD Group's software that identifies cooperation opportunities in advance and sends and receives potential partners' requests to ensure the participants arrive at on-site one-to-one meetings with good preparations.