Taking place June 21st – July 5th, 2026, in Shenzhen, BGI Group extends a warm welcome to your participation in the course of Applicable Smart Medical Technology Training Program for "Belt and Road" Countries. Organized by BGI College, this 15-day program is designed for mid- to senior-level prof...
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Choices, conviction and curiosity. These are the driving forces that have taken Wyclif Odago from the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya to be a Project Operation Specialist at BGI Bioverse and a PhD candidate in Botany at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. As the fi...
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On March 17, a Dutch biotechnology delegation, organized by the Netherlands Innovation Network China and led by Antoni Mandemaker, Deputy Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Guangzhou, visited the BGI Center, the global headquarters of BGI Group. The delegation engaged in high-lev...
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On April 8th, a live video link connectedSerbia and three cities in China for a special online signing ceremony.The Serbian government and BGI signed anagreement entrusting BGI to build two "Huo-Yan" (“Fire Eye”) COVID-19testing labs in Serbia, one in the capital city of Belgrade and anoth...
Test kits for the novel coronavirus were jointly donated toJapan by BGI and two partners, the Mammoth Foundation and the ShenzhenFoundation for International Exchange and Cooperation, both based in Shenzhen,China. (Announcement from theChinese Embassy in Tokyo) Wang Jian, Co-founder and Chairman ...
On February 5, the Huo-Yan Laboratory, an emergency test laboratory runby BGI and designed to handle 10,000 samples daily to detect 2019-nCoV,officially started trial operation in Wuhan. The lab will greatly increase the speed of testing novelcoronavirus cases so that suspectedinfections can ...
BGI is bringing its full genomics expertise and resources to the front lines in the fight against the 2019 novel coronavirus. BGI has scaled up production of its new real-time fluorescent RT-PCR kits for detecting the virus, known as 2019-nCoV, donating 20,000 kits to support the response in Wuhan ...
As widely reported in the media, a new coronavirus has been identified in China, which is currently being called “2019 novel coronavirus” or “2019-nCoV.” Building on BGI’s history of developing solutions for rapid pathogen detection, BGI has developed a real-time fluorescent RT-PCR kit for detectin...
BGI Group headquartered in Shenzhen, China, is the world’s largest genome research organization innovating at the forefront of genomic technologies. VIB, headquartered in Ghent, Belgium, is a leading life science institute excelling in ground breaking research and translating science into innovat...