The National Stem Cell Resource Bank Innovation Alliance was established

Source: China Science Journal

 

“Search for “innovation alliance” on the search engine and you will find 250 million results. China is full of various innovation alliances, but today we established this innovation alliance not for our own selfish interests, nor just for a small field, but to contribute to the country and all mankind.” On September 10, the founding meeting of the National Stem Cell Resource Bank Innovation Alliance was held in Beijing. Zhou Qi, Chairman of the Alliance, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Director of the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, made the above statement. The alliance was initiated by the National Stem Cell Resource Bank and was jointly established with three other national resource platforms and five representative and influential cell resource banks. The National Stem Cell Resource Bank Innovation Alliance is a voluntary, professional, open and shared social organization based on the principles of “equality and mutual benefit, complementary advantages, collaborative innovation, cooperation and sharing”. The business scope includes building a cell resource collection and sharing platform; encouraging academic exchanges, promoting technical cooperation and industrial transformation; strengthening intellectual property protection and standard system construction; and ensuring biosafety and ethical norms. “The alliance will vigorously promote the integration of production, learning, research and application, while strengthening industry self-discipline, promoting the standardization, specialization and scale of the stem cell industry, and improving the overall development level and competitiveness of my country’s biomedical industry.” Zhou Qi introduced that the collection of cell resources, especially human cell resources, must be based on compliance with national regulations, and research and application need to be more standardized and regulated. Therefore, the alliance will work together with greater responsibility and responsibility to fulfill its mission and establish a stem cell resource bank that serves the world and all mankind. At the founding meeting, representatives of the alliance member units signed an agreement and issued a joint declaration, solemnly promising to abide by laws and regulations, strictly abide by ethics, support the charter, and work together to promote the healthy development of the stem cell field. As a member of the alliance and the earliest witness of the Beijing Stem Cell Bank, Qiao Jie, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of Peking University Third Hospital, hopes that through the joint efforts of alliance members, stem cells will have an important impact in the field of health and contribute an effective force to a healthy China. Based on the national strategic needs, the alliance will establish and enhance the capabilities of strategic resource allocation, top-level design, collaborative research and coordination in the field of stem cells for national security and future competition; for population health and social development, realize the collection, storage, development, utilization and sharing of stem cell resources, promote application transformation and protect people’s health; for science and technology, industry and economic development, coordinate resources, talents, innovation and industry, solve major scientific and technological problems, break through key common core technologies, and serve industry and economic development.

Attachment: 9 member units of the first alliance (ranked in no particular order):

  1. National Stem Cell Resource Bank (Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  2. National Stem Cell Transformation Resource Bank (Tongji University)

  3. National Biomedical Experimental Cell Resource Bank (Institute of Basic Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences)

  4. National Model and Characteristic Experimental Cell Resource Library (Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  5. South China Stem Cell Transformation Bank (Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  6. South China Cell and Stem Cell Bank (Academy of Military Medical Sciences)

  7. Cancer Stem Cell Bank (The First Affiliated Hospital of Army Medical University)

  8. Germinal Stem Cell Bank (Peking University Third Hospital)

  9. National Engineering Research Center for Human Stem Cells Stem Cell Bank (Hunan Guangxiu High-tech Life Technology Co., Ltd.)