The US–China techbio summit for early and growth-stage companies. Accelerating medicine across borders. Shanghai · Oct 26–27, 2026thelanternsummit.comJoined August 2026
Su Zhang joins us at The Lantern Summit.
CEO of CoDevCo, a shared-CBO office for cross-border biotech deals. As Hengrui's Global Head of BD she led the Kailera NewCo — $400M from Atlas, Bain and RTW.
Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026
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Wenliang Lei joins us at The Lantern Summit.
PI at Jinan University's GHM Institute of CNS Regeneration. His lab builds primate models of Alzheimer's and tests AAV gene therapy in them.
Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026
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Jeff He joins us at The Lantern Summit.
Co-founder and CEO of TandemAI, pairing AI and physics-based models with wet labs in the US and China. Co-founded HiFiBiO and Harbour BioMed before that.
Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026
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Alan Jiang joins us at The Lantern Summit.
Chief Strategy Officer at @XtalPi (2228.HK), where AI, quantum physics and robotic labs meet drug R&D. Twenty years at Genzyme and Sanofi before that.
Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026
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Jielun Zhu joins us at The Lantern Summit.
Co-founder, CFO & CBO of Excalipoint, whose $68.7M seed is among the largest ever for a Chinese biotech. Led I-Mab's Nasdaq IPO as CFO before that.
Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026
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Kerry Blanchard joins us at The Lantern Summit.
CEO of Perpetual Medicines and President of R&D at TandemAI. Four decades of drug hunting, the last 16 in China: Lilly China, Innovent, Everest Medicines.
Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026
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Carol Magalhaes joins us at The Lantern Summit.
Co-founder of Autonomy Bio, an age1-incubated company working on healthy lifespan. George Church's lab before that; left a Stanford PhD to build it.
Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026
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@maxmarchione joins us to speak at The Lantern Summit.
Co-founder and CEO of @superpower, building preventive care around routine deep diagnostics instead of the annual physical. Sydney to San Francisco, founded 2023.
Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026
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Vince Deng joins us at The Lantern Summit.
CFO of OnTargetBio and Venture Partner at Med-Fine Capital, a seed investor in Excalipoint. Glycoscientist by training; published in Cell and PNAS.
Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026
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Dan Wee joins us at The Lantern Summit.
Chief eXecution Officer at @enveda since before the seed round. Enveda closed a $311M Series E in September at a $2B valuation, three medicines in the clinic.
Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026
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We want to help founders find investors and partners beyond their home ecosystem.
There is no fee to apply or pitch.
Submit an English-language deck by October 15th.
Apply, or pass this on to a founder:
thelanternsummit.com/pitch-track
We're selecting 10 early-stage techbio companies from China and the West to pitch at The Lantern Summit.
Meet investors and operators from Greater China, Europe and the US.
Shanghai · October 27.
Apply by October 15th:
thelanternsummit.com/pitch-track
We want to help founders find investors and partners beyond their home ecosystem.
There is no fee to apply or pitch.
Submit an English-language deck by October 15th.
Apply, or pass this on to a founder:
thelanternsummit.com/pitch-track
@shaangandhi (Shaan Gandhi) joins us at The Lantern Summit.
VP & Head of Partnerships for PAVE at Pfizer. Co-founded Pyxis Oncology at Longwood, led biotech at Northpond. MD, MBA, DPhil — and a former MGH hospitalist.
Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026
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@JoshuaYoungYang joins us at The Lantern Summit.
Founder & CEO of Glyphic, single-molecule protein sequencing from Ed Boyden's MIT lab. Co-founded Nephrosant; its transplant test is Medicare-reimbursed.
Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026
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We want to help founders find investors and partners beyond their home ecosystem.
There is no fee to apply or pitch.
Submit an English-language deck by October 5th.
Apply, or pass this on to a founder:
thelanternsummit.com/pitch-track
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