By Li Han

Staff Writer of the Tsinghua News Center

An inauguration ceremony to mark the opening of the Bayer-Tsinghua University (Institute of Biomedicine) Joint Research Center for Innovative Drug Discovery was held in the School of Medicine on June 19th. Tsinghua University Vice President Kang Kejun, Dr. Hanno Wild, Senior Vice President, Bayer Schering Pharma (BSP), and Mr. Liam Condon, Managing Director, Bayer Healthcare China (BHC), were present at the ceremony and unveiled the Joint Center. Professor Shi Yigong, Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Deputy Dean of the School of Medicine, and Vice Director of Tsinghua’s Institute of Biomedicine, hosted the ceremony.