Tagged with Sequencing

Taiwan Jerry Cheng is general manager for Illumina across Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, steering the company’s expansion in three strategically significant genomics markets. With over two decades of pharmaceutical industry experience, including pioneering biomarker-driven oncology therapeutics, Cheng now orchestrates Illumina’s transition from research instrumentation to clinical implementation. His mandate encompasses…

China Illumina has been swept into the trade conflict between the US and China. After the Trump administration declared a 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods in February, Beijing retaliated by blacklisting the American gene sequencing giant. But beyond the implications for the company, as the trade conflict continues to rage…

China US-headquartered global genomic sequencing giant Illumina has endured a tough few years. However, now that various legal wrangles over its acquisition of cancer diagnostics developer GRAIL have been largely resolved and with a new global CEO in place, the firm has outlined a new growth strategy and is predicting high…

USA Troubled gene sequencing firm Illumina has announced a new strategy to accelerate growth. Under the leadership of CEO Jacob Thaysen, Illumina hopes to turn the page on a recent history marked by antitrust issues following its decision to acquire former spin-off company Grail.   Illumina’s ambitious new strategy comes after…

China Drawing on a wealth of Big Pharma experience, Jenny Zheng now leads China operations for Illumina, a global leader in genomics, specialising in DNA sequencing technology that drives innovation in healthcare, research, and personalised medicine. Illumina continues to see China as a crucial part of its global strategy due to…

USA US Congress has highlighted Chinese biotechnology firms, including giants WuXi and BGI, as posing a risk to the country’s national security. PharmaBoardroom takes a look at why the US is now targeting these companies and the potential impact of a proposed US Biosecure Act on US-China biotech ties.   Protecting…

USA Illumina’s newly appointed CEO, Jacob Thaysen, will take the reins of the gene sequencing giant at the end of September. Falling heir to the difficulties that have plagued Illumina since its botched acquisition of cancer blood test maker Grail, Thaysen will have to confront the company’s legal tangles with the…

China Sheng Sitong, founder and CEO of gene sequencing device company, Considerin Group (formerly HYK Gene), discusses Considerin’s rapid expansion and the development of precision medicine in China. Mr. Sheng, could you briefly introduce your company, Considerin Group, to our international audience? “We are the only Chinese company to have our…

Taiwan Daniel Huang, CEO of Genomics Bioscience, Taiwan’s largest commercial genome sequencing company, and Chairman of Pharmigene, a global leader in the development and manufacturing of genetic tests, documents how he plans to leverage the combined capacity and expertise of these two companies to form strategic alliances with leading pharmaceutical companies…

Taiwan Johnsee Lee, founder, CEO, and president of Personal Genomics and its sister company Quark Biosciences, provides insights into the company’s proprietary Optoelectronic Sequencing (OES) technology, which can perform whole genome sequencing thousand times faster than existing technologies and increase read length twentyfold in comparison to sequencing products currently on the…