About GBB

Global Bioprocessing Made Simpler and More Efficient

Company Profile

Great Bay Bio (GBB), headquartered in HKSTP, is a biotech company that drives drug development using cutting-edge technologies such as AI, big data mining, and automation. GBB adheres to the corporate vision of "Global Bioprocessing Made Simpler and More Efficient," and aims to address the challenges of long timelines, high costs, and low success rates in drug development, with a long-term goal of enhancing human life, health, and value.

The core team of GBB comprises experts from medicine, synthetic biology, and artificial intelligence. The company operates a 3,000㎡ R&D laboratory and CMC platform, supporting customers in securing clinical trial approvals from China’s NMPA and the US FDA. GBB has secured nearly 100 patents related to AI-enabled drug development and successfully commercialized multiple AI technology platforms. The company has established long-term partnerships with leading domestic and international enterprises.

GBB has passed the ISO 9001:2015 quality management system certification, been selected for Forbes Asia 100 to Watch 2024 List, and won numerous awards, including "Deloitte Technology Rising Star Company," "EY Entrepreneur Of The Year," "15th Shenzhen Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition," "Gold Award for Hong Kong Global Innovation," "Excellence in Process Innovation Award," and "Excellence in Technology Adoption Award". The company has also been successfully selected for the Hong Kong Science Park Elite Enterprise Program.

  • Vision
  • Vision

    Global Bioprocessing Made
    Simpler and More Efficient

  • Mission
  • Mission

    Challenging the Future
    with 3D Innovation

  • Values
  • Values

    Innovation, Execution, Leadership

  • History

    Hong Kong Innopreneur Awards 2025 - New Industrialisation Award

    Great Bay Bio and Taron Form Strategic Partnership to Advance HK Biopharmaceutical Innovation

    Great Bay Bio and Eureka Therapeutics Partner to Develop AI-Powered Antibody Discovery Model

    Awarded on the FNS101 List of China’s Innovative Pharmaceutical Companies 2025 and the “AI-Pharma Integration Pioneer Award”

    Great Bay Bio and Chime Biologics Deepen Strategic Collaboration

    Awarded the Top 50 Innovative Biotechnology Companies in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Award 2024  ·  Most Valuable Investment Enterprise

    Awarded the Top 50 Innovative Biotechnology Companies in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Award 2024  ·  The Pioneer Enterprise

    Completed First Close of Series B Financing

    Forged Strategic Alliance with MEGAROBO

    Launched Intelligent Drug Development Ecosystem

    Selected for Forbes Asia 100 to Watch 2024 List

    Obtained Authentication of ISO 9001:2015 - Quality Management Systems

    Launched Online System for Bio-product Molecule Assessment and Optimization, AlfaDAX

    Uni-Bio – GBB – Pebble Accelerator Signed Agreement to Co-Develop Novel Weight-loss Drugs

    Awarded the High-Tech Enterprise

    Awarded the 2023 Deloitte Rising Star Award

    Awarded the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ 2023 Awards

    Awarded the Second Prize in the Shenzhen Innovation Competition

    Great Bay Bio and MNC Kickstart Strategic Cooperation for AI-Driven Cell Culture Media Development

    Launched AI-enabled No-screening Cell Culture Media Development Platform, AlfaOPA

    BioCon Awards 2023 Top Popular Enterprise of Biotechnology Industry

    Gold Award for Hong Kong Global Innovation Awards, Excellence in Process Innovation and Excellence in Technology Adoption

    Admitted into the HKSTP Elite Programme

    Ranked Among Top 100 Future Medical Companies in 2023

    BCIC2023 International Biomedical Entrepreneurship Competition • Best Innovation Award

    Great Bay Bio and Xinyi Technology Reached Strategic Cooperation

    AI-enabled Site-Specific Integration Cell Line Completed DMF filing

    Served as Member of Shenzhen Artificial Intelligence Industry Association

    Awarded Hong Kong Innopreneur Awards – GBA+ Award

    AI-enabled Site-Specific Integration Cell Line Development Platform, AlfaCell Was Awarded the Creative Star of Wings

    Launched AI-enabled Site-Specific Integration Cell Line Development Platform, AlfaCell

    Landed USD 15M Pre-Series B Funding Led by Tiger Jade Capital

    Listed on 2022 Spring Semester of Microsoft Acceleration Program

    Forged Strategic Alliance with Cheerland Life Science

    Forged Strategic Alliance with ChemPartner

    Joined NVIDIA's Inception Program and Won the Special Prize of NVIDIA Start-up Final Presentation

    Completed Series A Fundraising Worth of Nearly USD 10M

    Awarded the Gen.T Social Impact and Leader of Tomorrow 2021

    Entered Top 15 of 2021 Merck Greater Bay Area Innovation Bootcamp

    Entered Hong Kong Science Park

    Forged Strategic Alliance with Chime Biologics

    Launched AI-enabled Cell Line Stability Prediction Platform, AlfaStaX

    Launched AI-enabled Cell Culture Development Platform, AlfaMedX

    Completed USD 3.8M Convertible Note Financing  Led by Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund

    Awarded the Top 50 Innovative Biotechnology Companies

    Among the top 150 of the Sprout List and Awarded as One of the Most Valuable Companies for Investment in China in 2020

    Awarded the High-Tech Enterprise

    Awarded the “Young Industrialist of Hong Kong 2020”

    Launched AI-enabled Cell Precision Selection Platform, Klone4.0

    Approved to Set Up Doctoral Workstation in Guangdong

    Signed Memorandum of Cooperation with Pengcheng

    Awarded Merit Award for Innovative Hong Kong SME

    Injected with USD 2.5M Convertible Note

    The Establishment of Great Bay Bio

    2025
    2024
    2023
    2022
    2021
    2020
    2019

    2025

    Hong Kong Innopreneur Awards 2025 - New Industrialisation Award

    Great Bay Bio and Taron Form Strategic Partnership to Advance HK Biopharmaceutical Innovation

    Great Bay Bio and Eureka Therapeutics Partner to Develop AI-Powered Antibody Discovery Model

    Awarded on the FNS101 List of China’s Innovative Pharmaceutical Companies 2025 and the “AI-Pharma Integration Pioneer Award”

    Great Bay Bio and Chime Biologics Deepen Strategic Collaboration

    2024

    Awarded the Top 50 Innovative Biotechnology Companies in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Award 2024  ·  Most Valuable Investment Enterprise

    Awarded the Top 50 Innovative Biotechnology Companies in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Award 2024  ·  The Pioneer Enterprise

    Completed First Close of Series B Financing

    Forged Strategic Alliance with MEGAROBO

    Launched Intelligent Drug Development Ecosystem

    Selected for Forbes Asia 100 to Watch 2024 List

    Obtained Authentication of ISO 9001:2015 - Quality Management Systems

    Launched Online System for Bio-product Molecule Assessment and Optimization, AlfaDAX

    Uni-Bio – GBB – Pebble Accelerator Signed Agreement to Co-Develop Novel Weight-loss Drugs

    2023

    Awarded the High-Tech Enterprise

    Awarded the 2023 Deloitte Rising Star Award

    Awarded the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ 2023 Awards

    Awarded the Second Prize in the Shenzhen Innovation Competition

    Great Bay Bio and MNC Kickstart Strategic Cooperation for AI-Driven Cell Culture Media Development

    Launched AI-enabled No-screening Cell Culture Media Development Platform, AlfaOPA

    BioCon Awards 2023 Top Popular Enterprise of Biotechnology Industry

    Gold Award for Hong Kong Global Innovation Awards, Excellence in Process Innovation and Excellence in Technology Adoption

    Admitted into the HKSTP Elite Programme

    Ranked Among Top 100 Future Medical Companies in 2023

    BCIC2023 International Biomedical Entrepreneurship Competition • Best Innovation Award

    Great Bay Bio and Xinyi Technology Reached Strategic Cooperation

    AI-enabled Site-Specific Integration Cell Line Completed DMF filing

    Served as Member of Shenzhen Artificial Intelligence Industry Association

    2022

    Awarded Hong Kong Innopreneur Awards – GBA+ Award

    AI-enabled Site-Specific Integration Cell Line Development Platform, AlfaCell Was Awarded the Creative Star of Wings

    Launched AI-enabled Site-Specific Integration Cell Line Development Platform, AlfaCell

    Landed USD 15M Pre-Series B Funding Led by Tiger Jade Capital

    Listed on 2022 Spring Semester of Microsoft Acceleration Program

    Forged Strategic Alliance with Cheerland Life Science

    Forged Strategic Alliance with ChemPartner

    2021

    Joined NVIDIA's Inception Program and Won the Special Prize of NVIDIA Start-up Final Presentation

    Completed Series A Fundraising Worth of Nearly USD 10M

    Awarded the Gen.T Social Impact and Leader of Tomorrow 2021

    Entered Top 15 of 2021 Merck Greater Bay Area Innovation Bootcamp

    Entered Hong Kong Science Park

    Forged Strategic Alliance with Chime Biologics

    Launched AI-enabled Cell Line Stability Prediction Platform, AlfaStaX

    Launched AI-enabled Cell Culture Development Platform, AlfaMedX

    Completed USD 3.8M Convertible Note Financing  Led by Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund

    2020

    Awarded the Top 50 Innovative Biotechnology Companies

    Among the top 150 of the Sprout List and Awarded as One of the Most Valuable Companies for Investment in China in 2020

    Awarded the High-Tech Enterprise

    Awarded the “Young Industrialist of Hong Kong 2020”

    Launched AI-enabled Cell Precision Selection Platform, Klone4.0

    Approved to Set Up Doctoral Workstation in Guangdong

    2019

    Signed Memorandum of Cooperation with Pengcheng

    Awarded Merit Award for Innovative Hong Kong SME

    Injected with USD 2.5M Convertible Note

    The Establishment of Great Bay Bio

    Board of Directors

    Kingsley Leung

    Kingsley Leung

    Great Bay Bio, Co-founder & Chairman

    Kingsley Leung

    Great Bay Bio, Co-founder & Chairman

    Mr. Leung has over 15 years’ experience in the life science and finance industries. Currently, he is the Chairman of Great Bay Bio and also serves as Director in both Uni-bio Science Group and DotBio.  He has broad experience in sourcing, evaluating and executing new growth opportunities, supporting the execution and alliance management of 8 deals, including the in-licensing of next generation oncology, inflammation and respiratory drugs from MNCs.

    Mr. Leung also has extensive experience in the finance industry where he worked in healthcare investment banking in Merrill Lynch and a family office, helping evaluated IPO opportunities for multiple companies across the US and PRC. Up to date, Mr. Leung has led and successfully raised over USD 60M across multiple of his ventures. Mr. Leung was awarded the prestigious honour of World Outstanding Young Leaders Award from Yazhou Zhoukan in 2016, Entrepreneur of the Year from CAPITAL in 2017, Young Industrialist Awards of Hong Kong in 2020, and Gen.T Social Impact and Leader of Tomorrow 2021.
    Mr. Leung is currently a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of The Hong Kong Society of Financial Analysts. He was also elected the Vice Chairman of Pharmaceutical & Chemical group of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries (FHKI). Mr. Leung holds a BSc in Biochemistry from Imperial College London, a MSc in Pharmacology from the University of Oxford, and EMBA from Tsinghua-INSEAD. In addition, he holds a Professional Diploma in Corporate Governance & Directorship from the Hong Kong Institute of Directors.

    Michael Chen, Ph.D.

    Michael Chen, Ph.D.

    Great Bay Bio, Co-founder & CEO

    Michael Chen, Ph.D.

    Great Bay Bio, Co-founder & CEO

    Dr. Michael Chen is the CEO & Co-founder of Great Bay Bio. He has more than 30 years of experience in technologies, operation management, and business partnership in the biopharmaceutical industry. Prior to Great Bay Bio, Dr. Chen served as the senior positions in Synageva, Faville, and Applied Biotech. In the last five years Dr. Chen has led the GBB team to successfully launch several AI-enabled bioprocessing platforms.
    Dr. Chen holds a Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from the University of Georgia and a postdoctoral position from The Scripps Research Institute in San Diego. He has received several NIH postdoctoral scholarships and has published 14 SCI papers, and owns more than 50 patents.

    George Li

    George Li

    Managing Partner of Proxima Ventures

    George Li

    Managing Partner of Proxima Ventures

    George Li is a Managing Partner with Proxima Ventures. George has over 15 years’ experience of founding, investing and building life science start-up companies and has accumulated hands-on experience of advising and investing early stage medtech companies, specially in interdisciplinary innovations. George led Proxima Ventures investment of  Vickor, Nanoablation, Matridx, Mobidrop, Wisdom Health and serve as boarddirector of those companies.

    Prior to joining Proxima Ventures,George founded Biohub which is a leading medical incubator & accelerator in China and has built a leading medical ecosystem which has offices in Wuhan, Suzhou, Zhengzhou, Chongqing and Chengdu to provide wet lab and cGMP facilities and provides access to top hospitals and KOLs in China. Biohub has incubated and supported 100+ early stage life science companies covering biotech, medical devices, diagnostic and medical services.

    Prior to Biohub, George was co-founder of Biohermsand grew it into a leading IVD company in China.

    George also serves as the Chair judge for Chunhui business plan contest and mentor early stage companies.

    George holds a MBA from Hult International Business School and a Bachelor degree from Zhejiang University.

    Chibo Tang

    Chibo Tang

    Managing Partner of Gobi

    Chibo Tang

    Managing Partner of Gobi

    Chibo Tang, Managing Partner of Gobi has been investing in tech startups in China for over a decade. He is the Head of Gobi’s Greater Bay Area (GBA) practice, and manages the Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund (AHKEF) for which Gobi is the exclusive General Partner (GP).  He has led numerous investments including Airwallex, WeLab, GOGOX, AutoX, Amber Group, Animoca Brands, Prenetics, OneDegree, Urban Revivo, DayDayCook, AQUMON, SHOPLINE, and SandboxVR.

    Chibo is recognized in the industry as Silicon Dragon Venture Capitalist of the Year 2017, Top 25 Global Corporate Venturing Rising Star 2019, Top 10 Global Corporate Venturing Emerging Leader 2020, a member of Generation T Asia Tatler Tribe as well as Asia’s Most Influential 2021, and is an Advisory Council Member of the Asia Technology Entrepreneurship Conference.

    Chibo received his B.A. in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard College, and received his MBA in Finance from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). Chibo began his career as Strategy Consultant with Monitor Group, focusing on ASEAN and MENA region, then spent time at Robert Bosch as Senior Manager of Corporate Strategy APAC. Chibo joined Gobi Partners in 2009 and is currently a Managing Partner based in Hong Kong.
    Weiqiang Jiang

    Weiqiang Jiang

    Founding Partner

    Weiqiang Jiang

    Founding Partner

    Mr. Jiang Weiqiang has 30 years of professional experience in both brand management and venture capital & private equity investment. He is currently a founding partner and member of investment committee of Tiger Jade Capital and is responsible for overall investment and operation of the fund. Prior to his current role, Mr. Jiang worked in Capital Today, a leading private equity firm in China from 2008 to 2019, where he was a partner of the firm and led or got involved in many notable investments including Inoherb, FIONA, Ganji, Thatgamecompany, a1 food, etc. Prior to joining Capital Today, Mr. Jiang worked in P&G China marketing department from 1996-2008.


    Mr. Jiang obtained double bachelor degrees in Biochemical Engineering and Economy in 1996 from South China University of Technology.  He also got his EMBA degree from China Europe International Business School in 2011.

    Ting Xie (Observer), Ph.D., CFA

    Ting Xie (Observer), Ph.D., CFA

    Managing Director of Hillhouse Capital

    Ting Xie (Observer), Ph.D., CFA

    Managing Director of Hillhouse Capital

    Dr. Ting Xie from Hillhouse BioVenture, focuses on the investment of cutting edge life science technologies and new therapies globally, he serves as a Board Member at various biotech companies including Elpiscience. Prior to that he worked for a Healthcare specialized Private Equity fund HCR in New York metro area and a Wall Street financial institution Alliance Bernstein covering Biotech and Spec Pharma. He obtained a Ph.D. degree from Harvard University, and BS degree from Tsinghua University.

    Management Team

    Kane Qi, Ph.D.

    Kane Qi, Ph.D.

    Chief Commercial Officer

    Kane Qi, Ph.D.

    Chief Commercial Officer

    Dr. Qi graduated from East China University of Science and Technology, majoring in biochemical engineering. He has conducted research in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering at the State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering (East China University of Science and Technology) and the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism (Shanghai Jiao Tong University). Dr. Qi has many years of experience in commercializing innovative products and rich experience in market management, business model innovation and business team building for technical products such as big data statistics, mass spectrometry multi omics tools and single cell analysis.
    Kenneth Lai

    Kenneth Lai

    Chief Financial Officer

    Kenneth Lai

    Chief Financial Officer

    Mr. Kenneth Lai possesses extensive expertise in financial management within the biotech and medical device industries, bringing over 20 years of experience in various key areas such as private and public equity fund raising, establishing foundational finance, and legal & compliance functions. Notably, he has demonstrated his leadership abilities by overseeing the successful completion of two Hong Kong IPOs for prominent biotech companies.

    With honors, Mr. Kenneth Lai obtained his degree in finance and accounting from Simon Fraser University in Canada. He is a qualified Canadian chartered accountant and has garnered valuable experience in auditing and consulting through his tenure at reputable Big Four accounting firms, including PwC and KPMG. Currently, Mr. Lai is actively pursuing an executive MBA program at the esteemed Kellogg School of Management in conjunction with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, further enriching his knowledge and skill set.
    Wanjun Lan

    Wanjun Lan

    Vice President of CMC

    Wanjun Lan

    Vice President of CMC

    Mr. Lan has more than 15 years of experience in new drug screening, process development and scale-up, quality research, registration and clinical project management. Mr. Lan used to work in drug screening at the Key Laboratory of Animal Resources and Disease Prevention and Control in Liaoning Province, in drug research and development department at Sailong Pharmaceutical Group (002898), and successively served as an analysis supervisor, a quality manager, and a R&D executive manager in a subsidiary of Uni-Bio Science (HK690). Mr. Lan successively served as R&D director and general manager at Guangzhou Tailli Biomedicine Co., Ltd.

    Mr. Lan holds a master's degree in biochemistry and molecular biology, a bioengineer, an authorized person for drug production quality, and has published more than 20 papers and patents.

    Company Honors

  • Gold Award for Hong Kong Global Innovation Award
  • Gold Award for Hong Kong Global Innovation Award

  • Excellence in Technology Adoption Award
  • Excellence in Technology Adoption Award

  • AI-Pharma Integration Pioneer Award
  • AI-Pharma Integration Pioneer Award

  • Deloitte Technology Rising Star Company
  • Deloitte Technology Rising Star Company

  • BioCon Awards 2023 Top Popular Enterprise of Biotechnology Industry
  • BioCon Awards 2023 Top Popular Enterprise of Biotechnology Industry

  • TOP100 China's Innovative Medical Commerce and Supply Chain Service List 2023
  • TOP100 China's Innovative Medical Commerce and Supply Chain Service List 2023

  • Awarded the Top 50 Innovative Biotechnology Companies in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Award 2024
  • Awarded the Top 50 Innovative Biotechnology Companies in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Award 2024

  • Ecosystem Traction

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