Task Group on International Relations

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EFBIC2 Mission

• - EFBIC Mission is to establish strategic
  relations with high-level decision-makers and
  scientists from Europe and China
• - EFBIC works to encourage, develop and
  facilitate cooperative research and innovation

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EFBIC Red Kickoff Welcome

• Project acronym EFBIC Red
• EC Specific Support Action
• Duration 2 years April 1st 2007-March 31st 2009

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EFBIC Red Kickoff Strategic Objectives

• To promote and facilitate the participation of
  Chinese scientists in EU Framework Programme
  consortia and EU scientists in Chinese research
  programmes in relation to the current Life
  Sciences, Genomics and Biotechnology for Health
  Programme and appropriate subsequent Seventh
  Framework Programme instruments in close
  coordination with the European Commission
• To monitor and evaluate the health research
  policies of the EU and China and best cooperation
  practices between them, especially as they relate
  to the development of the EU Seventh Framework
  Programme (FP7) and China's mid- and long-term
  (10 to 20 year) strategy

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EFBIC Red Kickoff Strategic Objectives

• To review the current state of knowledge in the
  relevant science and technology of shared
  interest and define strategies for the
  application of this knowledge to selected
  objectives of common purpose
• To build on and extend the already-established
  research and development networks, offices and
  national contact points in the EU and China from
  an earlier phase of EFBIC (European Focus on
  Biotechnology with China) for RD cooperation.

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EFBIC Red Kickoff Participants
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SCIENTIFIC TOPICSTRADITIONAL CHINESE
MEDICINEREGENERATIVE MEDICINESDIABETESGENOMI
CS FOR HEALTHAGEINGINFECTIOUS DISEASES
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EFBIC Red Kickoff SSMB Board China

• Prof. Guo De-an, Beijing Medical University
• Prof. Mu ZHANG, China National Center for
  Biotechnology Development, China
• Prof. Xuetao CAO, Second Military Medical
  University, China
• Prof. Zhu CHEN,Vice President of Chinese Academy
  of Sciences, China
• Prof. Yixue LI, Bioinformation Centre Shanghai
  Institute for Biological Sciences, China
• Prof. Depei LIU, China Academy of Medical
  Science, China, Co- Scientific Chairman EFBIC Red
• Prof. Xuetao PEI, Beijing Institute of
  Transfusion, Beijing
• Prof. Xiao-Min Wang, Capital University of
  Medical Sciences, Dept. of Physiology
• Prof. Yu-mei WEN, Medical Centre of Fudan
  University, China
• Prof. Wang Hongguang, Director-General, China
  National Centre for Biotechnology Development,
  China. Co-Strategic Chairman EFBIC Red
• Representative of MOST, Chinese Minestery of
  Science and Technology

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EFBIC Red Kickoff SSMB Board Europe

• Prof. Brian Clark, Aarhus University, Denmark,
  Co- Scientific Chairman EFBIC Red
• Prof. Wilhelm Ansorge, Institute of Advanced and
  Emerging Technology, EMBL, Germany
• Prof. Lars Bolund, Institute of Human Genetics,
  Aarhus, Denmark
• Dr. Werner Christie, Scientific Counsellor,
  Embassy of Norway in China
• Prof. Antoine Danchin, Institut Pasteur, France
• Prof. Børge Diderichsen, Vice-President, Novo
  Nordisk A/S, Denmark
• Prof. Claudio Franceschi, University of Bologna,
  Italy
• Prof. David McConnell, Smurfit Institute of
  Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Prof. Peter Rigby, University of London, United
  Kingdom
• Prof. Mathias Uhlén, AlbaNova University Center,
  Stockholm
• Dr. Jens Sundbye, EFB, Aarhus Regional Branch
  office C/O Bio Medico Forum, Co-Strategic
  Chairman EFBIC Red
• Representative of the European Commission
• Representative from the partners

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EFBIC Red Kickoff Overall aim

• The overall aim of this project is the
  establishment of new research collaborations of
  urgent common interest in the life sciences,
  genomics and biotechnology for health area with
  collaborative EU-China networks and to build on
  good relations and achievements established
  during the earlier EFBIC programme.
• Its purpose is to respond to the ever-growing
  scientific and commercial importance of China for
  the EU in the life sciences, genomics and
  biotechnology for health field and to the shared
  interests for collaboration. Its focus is both on
  developing joint EU-China research and strategies
  and on encouraging the participation of Chinese
  scientists in EU Framework Programme research
  consortia.
• The project will review and define strategies in
  this field and strengthen scientific cooperation
  in the immediate and longer term between the EU
  and China. It will be carried out in close
  collaboration between the EFB (sponsored by the
  European Commission), Europe Unlimited, FFG, APRE
  and the CNCBD sponsored by MOST.

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EFBIC Red Kickoff Overall aim

• EFBIC Red aims to establish cooperative relations
  between leading researchers in Europe and China
  in the field of the life sciences, health and
  biotechnology.
• In cooperation with science, industry and public
  interest organizations, EFBIC will work to
  encourage, develop and facilitate cooperative
  strategies and activities in research,
  innovation, commercial development and training.

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EFBIC Red Kickoff Agenda