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Thursday, January 16 2020 - 18:16
AsiaNet
"Every Person Deserves the Chance to Live a Healthy and Productive Life" -- 2020 BUTTON Healthcare Cross-Border Partnering Summit -- From Globe to Asia
HEFEI, China, Jan. 16, 2020 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/--

On the morning of January 13, 2020 (Pacific Time), the 38th J.P. Morgan 
Healthcare Conference opened in San Francisco as scheduled. At the same time, 
the "BUTTON Healthcare Cross-Border Partnering Summit - From Globe to Asia" was 
grandly held at the Merchants Exchange Building in San Francisco. The summit 
was hosted by BUTTON TECH INC. (BUTTON US), co-organized by BIOCOM (Life 
Science Association of California, USA), and supported by JONES DAY (US law 
firm). The vision of BUTTON's summit is that "Every Person Deserves the Chance 
to Live a Healthy and Productive Life". This summit aims to promote novel, 
better high-tech medical technologies to benefit more people of different ages, 
races and regions around the world.

BUTTON's summit has received high attention from life sciences related 
companies and institutions from the United States, Europe and Asia. Forty-three 
speakers shared the opportunities, challenges, models and solutions of 
cross-border business in the healthcare industry with more than 1,100 audiences 
at the site. The speakers during the day (in no particular order) include but 
not limit to the key representatives of BUTTON (Ms. Lijun Li, Chairwoman; Mr. 
Shutian Liu, CEO of BUTTON Healthcare Fund), the representative of US Life 
Science Industry Association (Mr. Joseph Panetta, President and CEO of BIOCOM), 
the head of the top academic institution in the United States (Mr. Robert 
Tjian, Member of National Academy of Sciences of US, Former President of Howard 
Hughes Medical Institute, Professor of University of California Berkeley), the 
representatives of Chinese listed companies (Mr. Qingxi Wang, Executive 
Director of CSPC; Mr. Yongwei Zhang, CEO of BGI Americas and Group VP of BGI; 
Mr. Xue Wu from China Mobile (US)), the representative of Nordic-Swedish 
Biotech Industry Association (Ms. Helena Strigård, CEO of SwedenBIO), officials 
of US Government (Michael Salgaller, Director of Innovation Development and 
Marketing Unit, National Institutes of Health), the senior executive of Israeli 
life science enterprise (Mr. Barak Singer, CEO of listed company Trendlines 
Group), the attorney partner of top American law firm (Mr. Alan Seem, Partner 
of Jones Day), the partner of top American Venture Capital Company (Mr. James, 
Managing Partner of KPCB China).

BUTTON's summit consisted of 4 keynote speeches, 6 panel discussions, 2 
fireside chats, and "1-on-1" talk, covering topics such as cross-border 
regulations, supervision, innovation, investment, corporate management and 
other aspects, summarizing the life science development context and successful 
experience of the United States, Europe and Asia, focusing on exploring new 
models and new methods for China to cooperate with the world in the field of 
life science and technology under the new global situation. 

Mr. Shutian Liu, Founding Partner of BUTTON, emphasized the significance of the 
summit on behalf of BUTTON, the summit organizer: "BUTTON was founded in 2015 
in Silicon Valley with the belief that 'Every Person Deserves the Chance to 
Live a Healthy and Productive Life'. Since established, BUTTON has been 
committed to make novel, better high-tech medical technologies accessible to a 
wider population. BUTTON hope through this summit, we can help companies and 
institutions in the global life sciences field to find solutions of 
cross-border cooperation, and find the best partners."

Source: BUTTON TECH INC.

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   Caption: Mr. Shutian Liu (Co-founder of BUTTON) gave the speech.

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   Caption: Ms. Lijun Li (co-founder of BUTTON) gave the Global Influencer 
award to Mr. Robert Tjian (Member of National Academy of Sciences of US, Former 
President of Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor of University of 
California Berkeley).

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   Caption: "1-on-1" Talk between Mr. Anders Mollstam (CEO and Founder of MC AB 
from Sweden) and Mr. Shutian Liu (co-founder of BUTTON)