🏮Announcing the Lantern Summit in Shanghai🏮 In 2025, more new medicines launched first in China than anywhere else on Earth. That has never happened before. Drug development has two simultaneous accelerators: •⁠ ⁠AI is collapsing design (weeks instead of years). •⁠ ⁠China is collapsing development (physical iteration speed). Here is why that matters, and what Western biotech is missing: 🧵

Chong Xu joins us at The Lantern Summit. Partner at @FPrimeCapital and founding investor in AlphaGen Tx, Pediatrix, Skyline Tx, K36 Tx and RareStone Group. Board roles incl. Innovent, Adagene and Sironax. Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026 thelanternsummit.com 🏮

Dr. Chouwen Zhu joins us at The Lantern Summit. Leads the Shanghai Clinical Research and Trial Center. Gastroenterologist, clinical epidemiologist, former VP of Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University. Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026 thelanternsummit.com🏮

Kenneth Sun joins us at The Lantern Summit. Head of Asia at Royalty Pharma, leading its royalty business across the region. Previously Head of APAC Healthcare Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley. Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026 thelanternsummit.com 🏮

Keats Shi joins us at The Lantern Summit. CEO of Jiyu Bio, building an AI agent that matches foreign patients with treatments in China and biotechs with Chinese clinical resources. PhD, Baylor. Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026 thelanternsummit.com 🏮

Luyan Dai joins us at The Lantern Summit. Runs clinical data governance at the GBA National Innovation Center. Founded Boehringer Ingelheim’s China statistics team; built Harbour BioMed’s clinical team. Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026 thelanternsummit.com 🏮

Mark Cutis joins us at The Lantern Summit. Senior Advisor at the Abu Dhabi Investment Council. Former CEO of Abu Dhabi Global Market and Group CFO of ADNOC. Forty years in global markets. Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026 thelanternsummit.com 🏮

Dr. Lipeng Lai joins us at The Lantern Summit. Co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer of @XtalPi (2228.HK). Now co-founding INFevo, an AI virtual cell built on biological foundation models. Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026 thelanternsummit.com 🏮

Derek Weng joins us at The Lantern Summit. CEO of Blueprint China, Bryan Johnson’s longevity brand. Founder & CEO of Lemonbox, personalised nutrition for 10M+ users. YC alum, ex-Walmart Labs. Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026 thelanternsummit.com

Andrew Bartynski joins us at The Lantern Summit. Co-founder & CEO of Kopra Bio, building viral vectors that reprogram solid tumors. His last company went from founding to Phase II/III in six months. Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026 thelanternsummit.com🏮

Lantern Summit 2026 Pitch Track winners: 🏮Serna Bio 🏮HarborSite 🏮Interlock Therapeutics 🏮CirCode Biomed 🏮WestGene Biopharma 🏮Baseimmune 🏮ARTAN Bio 🏮Infinita 🏮Fold AI 🏮Anda Biopharma 🏮AurekaBio Mon 27 Oct, 3 PM · West Bund Orbit, Shanghai thelanternsummit.com

Simiao Zhao joins us at The Lantern Summit. Co-founder & CEO of @EonarkLongevity and a doctoral researcher at Oxford. Cross-species AI for the biology of aging. 2024 Roche-HDR UK Champion for AI Medicine. Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026 thelanternsummit.com

Dr. Zhen Liu joins us at The Lantern Summit. Senior PI at the CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science. His lab created the world’s first cloned monkeys, and the first live-born monkey chimeras. Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026 thelanternsummit.com

Dr. Guoxin Zhu joins us at The Lantern Summit. SVP and Global Head of Research at Hengrui. Ex-VP of Molecule Discovery at Eli Lilly, where he oversaw 100+ small molecule clinical candidates. Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026 thelanternsummit.com 🏮

Dr. Yue Wang joins us at The Lantern Summit. VP at AstraZeneca China R&D and Head of Digital Health. Her teams have supported 15 innovative medicine approvals and 35 new indications in China. Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026 thelanternsummit.com 🏮

Katherine Jones joins us at The Lantern Summit. First operations hire at @merge, the ultrasound BCI company co-founded by Sam Altman. Led neurotech investing at Hummingbird. Now at @JoinEdgeCity. Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026 thelanternsummit.com

Jeff Wang joins us at The Lantern Summit. Founder of Global Pharma Navigator, a network of 30,000+ manufacturers across Chinese biopharma. A decade in API manufacturing before he built it. Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026 thelanternsummit.com🏮

Phoenix Peng joins us at The Lantern Summit. Founder & CEO of Gestala, China's first ultrasound brain-computer interface company: RMB 570M raised since January. Co-founded NeuroXess before that. Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026 thelanternsummit.com

Dato’ William Woo joins us at The Lantern Summit. Chairman and CEO of ChemPartner, the drug discovery CRO and CDMO. Co-founder of Perfect China. Thirty years building healthcare businesses in China. Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026 thelanternsummit.com

Dr. Dan Zhang joins us at The Lantern Summit. Founder of Fountain Medical Development, now ClinChoice, and co-chairman of cell-therapy CDMO Hillgene. Fudan professor, ICH expert, PUMC medical doctorate. Shanghai · 26–27 Oct 2026 thelanternsummit.com 🏮