Dr. Jun Wang, CEO Of BGI, Steps Down

Jun Wang, the CEO of BGI, the genomic sequencing behemoth located in Shenzhen, is relinquishing his CEO title. A bioinformatics specialist, Dr. Wang is leaving to spend more time developing artificial intelligence, a long-time interest. Dr. Wang joined BGI seventeen years ago, at the age of 22, when BGI was still in Beijing. He is credited with being the force behind many of BGI's major scientific breakthroughs. In 2013, Dr. Wang told ChinaBio® Today, in an exclusive interview, “We are a dream-driven organization.” BGI is willing, he said, to enter any partnership that will advance genomic science, even if it doesn’t make economic sense. No doubt, he will bring the same driving idealism to his AI work.

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