Introducing SIAT

SIAT, founded in 2006 in Shenzhen, China, is a national research institution affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and jointly established by CAS, the Shenzhen Municipal Government, and The Chinese University of Hong Kong. As part of CAS’s strategic institutional and innovation deployment in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, SIAT comprises ten research institutes spanning AI, biomedical engineering, biomedicine, brain sciences, synthetic biology, and materials sciences. It ranks first among all 108 CAS institutes in the field of life and health sciences and ranks second in international cooperation. With a community of approximately 5,000 personnel, including roughly equal numbers of students and research staff, SIAT has established an integrated ecosystem that connects education, fundamental research, scientific infrastructure, technological innovation, and the translation of scientific advances into industrial and practical applications. Among its ten research institutes, the Institute of Synthetic Biology (SIAT-iSynBio) serves as a key platform for driving innovation in synthetic biology and related fields.