On April 6, 2020, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, University of Oxford and Chinese University of Hong Kong co-hosted a virtual round-table discussion on research collaboration.

More than 50 experts attended the meeting, including Prof. Xiao Haipeng, Vice President of Sun Yat-sen University and President of FAH-SYSU; Prof. Joseph Sung, Mok Hing Yiu Professor of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Prof. Simon Leedham, Director of Center for Personalized Medicine the University of Oxford; Mr. Rajarshi Banerjee, CEO of Perspectum.

The parties exchanged anti-epidemic information, and shared experience in prevention and control of COVID-19. In addition, the progress of cooperation in the fields of “colorectal cancer”, “diabetes and multiple organ imaging”, “hepatocellular carcinoma and immunotherapy”, “inflammatory bowel disease and risk prediction” and “the construction of core facilities in precision medicine” were reported respectively.