About Us

About Seno.Bio
Not a CXO — a platform operator

We're building China's first platform-grade infrastructure rooted in compliance science, with GLP as the hub, spanning the full journey of biopharma and medtech projects from validation to industrialization.

Company Overview

Who We Are

Seno.Bio (Hangzhou Shennong Jiuzhou Biotechnology Co., Ltd.) was founded in April 2022, drawing on the research and compliance resources of Zhejiang University's Institute of Technology Global Medical-Engineering Translation Platform and the Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center (Zhejiang) Drug Safety Evaluation Institute.

We've built a full-chain platform with GLP compliance validation as its hub, CDMO contract manufacturing as its extension, and commercialization as its outlet to market; for projects with a genuine growth-funding need, we can also participate through Growth Co-Investment.

This system is helping innovative drug and device projects move from proof of concept to full-scale implementation.

Our Mission

The Problem We're Solving

China's biopharma industry is entering a period of explosive growth, but the traditional CXO landscape is fragmented and disconnected, lacking an integrated platform that spans validation, compliance, and industrialization. GLP capacity is in serious short supply, drug and device logic remains split apart, and advanced therapy products (cell and gene therapy, tissue engineering) can't find a complete service system to support them.

Bridging Drugs and Devices
Drugs and devices are no longer two separate tracks — they're different types of projects entering the same platform, unified by compliance science as their shared foundation.
Connecting the Full Chain
From translation and validation to industrialization, projects move seamlessly within the platform — no more relay races between multiple institutions.
Filling the GLP Gap
GLP capacity in China is scarce. Rather than build a duplicate facility, the platform uses the Yangtze River Delta National Innovation Centre for Drug Safety Evaluation Technology within its own system, so projects reach an established evaluation capability without queueing for scarce capacity.
Serving Emerging Categories
Advanced therapy products (cell and gene therapy, tissue engineering) are booming, and the line between drugs and devices is blurring fast — traditional service systems simply can't keep up.
From manufacturing to market

Commercialization · National Channel

What happens after a product is registered is a natural extension of what we do. Our partnership with Jointown Pharmaceutical Group (SSE 600998) means devices manufactured on our platform, once registered, can plug directly into its nationwide distribution network — no province-by-province distributor search, no sales infrastructure built from scratch.

100,000+
pharmacies
10,000+
county-level+ public hospitals
96%+
national coverage
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Growth Co-Investment · Part of our service, not core

For projects that need capital, we can participate through Growth Co-Investment — this means equity investment. It's part of what we offer, not our core business; our core is GLP compliance validation, CDMO contract manufacturing and commercialization.

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Market Timing

Why Now

NMPA reform keeps advancing
Registration requirements keep rising and preclinical validation standards are converging with international norms, driving fast-growing demand for GLP compliance
GLP capacity is in serious short supply
Institutions with OECD mutual recognition credentials are especially scarce, leaving a clear gap between supply and demand
Advanced therapies are booming
Cell and gene therapy and tissue-engineered products are growing fast, and the drug-device line keeps blurring — demand for a new, integrated service platform is clear
A window for organoid compliance
The OECD's organoid validation guidelines are still being drafted, and the window to become an early mover is limited — now is the best time to build platform advantage
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Three teams, three jobs

Safety evaluation, contract manufacturing and platform operations are run by three teams with distinct remits. Here is who does what.

01
Safety evaluation team
GLP nonclinical safety evaluation

GLP studies are carried out at the Yangtze River Delta National Innovation Centre for Drug Safety Evaluation Technology, within the same national innovation system as the platform. The centre is led by Prof. Liao Mingyang.

Chief Scientist, NPRD
National Beijing Center for Drug Safety Evaluation and Research — Chief Scientist, concurrently QA Director since 2004
State Council Special Allowance
Recipient of the State Council Special Government Allowance
Regulatory review expert
New drug review expert for the national drug regulatory authority
Chinese Society of Toxicology
Council member; doctoral supervisor
02
Contract R&D and manufacturing team
Medical device CDMO under the registrant system

Design transfer, process validation, registration testing and licensed production are handled by the platform’s manufacturing operation, and its inspection record and quality system are open to verification.

Quality system
ISO 13485:2016 and ISO 9001:2015, certified December 2023
Inspection record
First contract manufacturing project passed the registration quality system inspection with zero findings, March 2023
Licensed scope
Manufacturing licences covering sterile implantable devices, active devices and IVD
Operating model
Registrant system — the client holds the registration certificate, the platform holds the manufacturing licence and the responsibility
03
Operations and investment team
Platform operations, legal and international liaison

Commercial terms, contracting, risk control and cross-border liaison sit with the platform’s operating team.

Yuan BaolongPresident & CEO
Formerly General Manager of the Biotechnology Division and Assistant President of CapitalBio Corporation (a Tsinghua University holding), with cumulative sales of close to RMB 600 million. Currently Director of External Cooperation at the Institute of Biotechnology and Medicine, Zhejiang Tsinghua Yangtze River Delta Research Institute.
Huang JunSVP, Overseas Business
PhD in Biology, University of British Columbia. Long-standing working relationships with technology transfer offices, research laboratories and biotechnology companies across North America and Europe; leads overseas partner liaison and commercial negotiation.
Chen WeijinFounding Partner & VP, Investment
Over 15 years in venture capital across technology manufacturing, information technology and healthcare. Portfolio companies include listed businesses such as SDIC Essence and Huayou Cobalt.
Lin SongSVP, Operations
More than 10 years in legal affairs and risk control, focused on the legal aspects of corporate investment, financing and operations.
Ji XiangyuShareholder & VP, Legal Affairs
15 years in legal practice. Corporate investment and financing, operational risk control; legal counsel to multiple organisations.