On December 15, the annual event of the Alliance of Open Life Science commenced in Guangzhou. Founded this August through a joint initiative of 15 leading universities and research institutions from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, and Macao, the Alliance has established its secretariat at Fudan University and a Hong Kong office at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Alliance Chairman, President of Fudan University, Professor JIN Li stated that the Alliance will continue to focus on collaborative education, frontier innovation, resource sharing, and industrial translation. By championing open science, providing high-quality public products, including key biological resources, world-class journals, data service mechanisms alongside technology transfer platforms, the Alliance seeks to promote the building of a truly responsible, open and collaborative global life science community.
A highlight of the event was the announcement of 18 new member institutions. The organization now encompasses leading universities and research institutions throughout China’s life sciences sector, building substantially upon its original 15 co-founding members. Furthermore, the Alliance has extended invitations to 32 premier international institutions, including the University of Oxford, Imperial College London, and the Leibniz Association, with positive responses already received from several of these institutions.
The Alliance officially launched its official academic journal VITA, and the preprint platform “LangTaoSha” (Chinese: 浪淘沙). Benchmarked against journals such as Cell, Nature, and Science, VITA has successfully obtained its international serial number and is scheduled to publish its inaugural issue in January 2026. The Alliance has set standards for data sharing and governance, and is promoting the building of biological resource centers for key resource sharing in the coming year.
On December 16, the Alliance signed MoUs with three regional sub-centers of the National University Biomedical Technology Transfer Center (in Chinese: 全国高校生物医药区域技术转移转化中心) in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Nanjing and Suzhou. According to the MoUs, the Alliance and the regional sub-centers will collaborate in supply-demand matching, data sharing, talent cultivation, and global industrial translation.
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Writer: Edward Turdmat
