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On January 4, 2025, Qu Dongyu, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, and his delegation visited BGI Center, the global headquarters of BGI Group in Shenzhen, China.Group photo of BGI Group executives and the visiting delegation.The delegation...
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On January 1, 2025, a research team led by BGI-Research published a groundbreaking study in Cell Reports titled, “Multi-omics reveals immune response and metabolic profiles during high-altitude mountaineering”. The scientists applied single-cell transcriptomics and advanced mass spectrometry to...
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The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Spain and BGI College in China announced the launch a four-year fully funded international PhD Program for candidates in life sciences, biomedical sciences, bioinformatics, and related disciplines.Designed to cultivate the next generation of global life sci...
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From November 20 to December 19, 2024, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), in collaboration with BGI-Research and other partners, successfully carried out a project in Sierra Leone to enhance malaria genomic surveillance.Malaria genomic surveillance team members from t...
On December 18th, Dr. Jean Kaseya, Director General of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), led a delegation to BGI Group to discuss potential collaboration in disease control, public health infrastructure, and staff training.Wang Jian (left), Chairman and Co-founder o...
In December 2024, 36 professionals from 26 African countries successfully completed an intensive, 90-day public health laboratory training program at BGI’s global headquarters in Shenzhen.Group Photo of Graduates: A commemorative photograph of the 36 participants from 26 African countries, taken on ...
On December 13th, Maryam Nawaz Sharif, Chief Minister of Punjab Province, Pakistan, led a delegation from the Punjab provincial government to visit BGI Group’s Global Headquarters in Shenzhen and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) covering areas such as construction of medical...
As one of the world’s leaders in life sciences, BGI Group are committed to enhancing health outcomes worldwide. This includes fighting diseases such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). Dr. Yin Ye, BGI Group CEO and Executive Director, recently announced news of BGI’s latest research result...
On November 29, Dr. Yin Ye, CEO and Executive Director of BGI Group, and Dr. Yona Baguma, Director General of the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) in Uganda, reinforced the partnership between the two parties during Dr. Baguma and his delegation’s visit to the BGI Center, BGI Gro...