Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has announced a biotechnology and translational medicine collaboration program between universities from Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the United States.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signing ceremony was recently held in PolyU campus in Hong Kong, where representatives from six institutions signed the MoU.

PolyU and its alliance partners from the bay area including Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen University, Macao University of Science and Technology will initiate a collaboration with the State University of New York at Buffalo and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, to set up the first translational medicine research platform in the bay area.

The collaboration is intended to pull together various expertise from the collaborating parties and their networks, and signify their commitments in research collaborations in the areas of cancer, genomics, translational medicine, and other related areas in biotechnology and their translation to benefit the global community.