From small clinic to medical empire

Chapter 288 Such a far-sighted nation is really scary!

Science is the primary productive force.

This sentence is not only the experience and lessons summed up by the Chinese people, but also a universal truth.

When it comes to science, it is natural not to avoid colleges and universities.

In China, various school-run enterprises are an important force for digesting and practicing the scientific research achievements of colleges and universities.

For example, Haoran Biological Co., Ltd. in the hands of Zhang Zifan, in a sense, has such power.

But in the U.S., since universities are completely tax-free.

In order to prevent commercial activities from evading taxes through affiliated universities, universities are not allowed to run businesses in the United States.

However, it is obviously impossible to completely decouple the front line of scientific research such as universities from the technology application market.

So something called a Technology Transfer Center was born.

In essence, the original intention of this system design is to hope that scientific research belongs to scientific research, and the market belongs to the market.

But as we all know, as long as there are high enough profits, capital will launch an attack on the gaps in all systems.

In other words, the bearers of the system itself will gradually take advantage of loopholes for their own benefit.

This is the case with UCLA's Technology Transformation Center.

It doesn't take a superb business acumen, as long as you are not blind, you can see how huge profits Haoran Biotech's weight loss products have.

So when Zhang Zifan found Professor Trudeau, the latter experienced a brief shock and immediately burst out with unprecedented work enthusiasm.

Not only did he get the colleagues in the Technology Transformation Center with great speed, but he also took the lead in establishing the North American branch of Haoran Biotech through complicated equity replacement.

On Zhang Zifan's side, barrister Erich (Schumacher's friend and personal lawyer) came forward and also completed the shareholding.

It is still the old rule, relying on technology and product supply, Haoran Bio's parent company holds 77.5% of the shares in this nascent company, and the largest shareholder of US capital is a close friend of Trudeau.

Under the vigorous promotion of Trudeau and others, Haoran Fat Reducing Ling began to gradually open up the market in North America.

Things are progressing so fast that the application process is still going on in China, but the sales in North America are already booming, which completely exceeded Zhang Zifan's expectations.

In his impression, the review of drugs in the United States is very strict.

For example, the well-known FDA, the US Food and Drug Administration (Food and Drug Administration), has blocked most of the channels for Chinese medicines to be marketed in the United States.

But after Trudeau flew to China to report to Zhang Zifan, he realized that he had made things complicated.

It is true that FDA is difficult to pass, but it does not mean that it cannot be sold without FDA approval.

Take traditional Chinese medicine for example. There are so many traditional Chinese medicine centers in Chinatowns in North America, but they still sell Chinese medicinal materials?

It's just that these Chinese herbal medicines are not considered medicines according to the law, but health food supplements.

FDA administers Center for Food Safety and Practical Nutrition (CFSAN), Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), Center for Biological Product Evaluation and Research (CBER), Center for Equipment Safety and Radiation Protection Health (CDRH), Center for Veterinary Drugs (CVM) five departments.

Among them, CBER mainly supervises the safety and effectiveness of biological products such as blood, plasma, and vaccines.

Strictly speaking, Haoran's insect-borne fat products should also fall under the jurisdiction of CBER.

However, Zhang Zifan learned from Trudeau that almost all weight loss products in the United States have not passed FDA certification, so as a weight loss product with a "slightly" different mechanism, Haoran Fat Reduction Ling naturally does not need to be certified.

In short, there is no need for Zhang Zifan to worry about any legal matters, only Haoran needs to increase production and ensure supply.

It would be best if you come to the United States to build a factory directly.

Zhang Zifan rejected Trudeau's suggestion and still planned to keep the production center in China.

On the one hand, this is because, in terms of product market, China is definitely not smaller than North America.

On the other hand, insect egg products are the same as medicines, which are easy to transport, but it is more troublesome to pass the inspection.

Unlike commodities, which have high transportation costs.

The horrible profit of hundreds of times of weight loss products does not care about the loss of tariffs and the like at all.

Therefore, Zhang Zifan had no motivation, and risked being turned into a customer to build a factory in North America.

Having said that, not counting the supply of fly species, the so-called building a factory is actually just building a big shed to raise flies.

This is not a technical thing.

In China, artificial breeding farms for sterile flies appeared as early as the 90s.

Utilizing the characteristics of high feed conversion rate and rich nutrition of flies, maggot protein was used instead of imported fish meal as a feed additive and achieved great success.

Today, so-called "fly factories" have blossomed all over the country.

In addition to using maggots as feed, it can also be used as an additive for medicine, food and cosmetics by extracting polyshell from maggots.

The entire industrial chain can be said to be quite complete.

Therefore, Zhang Zifan directly bought a fly farm on Chongming Island not far from S City, and after making some improvements, it became a breeding center for human flies.

Of course, human flies are different from ordinary flies, but after incorporating the genes of blowflies and hemp flies, their reproduction speed is also greatly accelerated.

Using one pig, you can breed tens of thousands of skin flies.

Of course, pigs are so cute, and the farm will not always use pigs.

Rabbits, cattle, sheep and other mammals are often used as feed.

However, it is clear that pigs have a unique racial advantage in providing fat.

In terms of safety control, technicians at Haoran Farm will regularly bring sample flies back to the laboratory, and Liu Xiaonan and her team will test their genomes to prevent population variation and degradation.

In fact, it is the same as hybrid rice and hybrid corn.

Breeding is also a bottleneck for the production of this human fly.

If human intervention is not carried out on a regular basis, the population of human skin flies will degenerate rapidly, the reproductive ability will be weakened, and the situation of character instability will appear.

And the individuals sold to users are father-in-laws who simply don't have the ability to reproduce.

This is also the reason why Haoran Biology uses insect eggs as commodities, but still does not worry about technology being stolen.

Have you ever heard of seed companies going out of business because they sold their seeds?

Only by mastering the upstream breeding, hybridization, and quality staining technologies can the traits of the final product be controlled.

……

1 months later, on September 12th.

Taking advantage of the Double Twelve promotion, Haoran Fat Reducing Spirit was quietly launched in China.

Since no traffic stars were invited to endorse, the listing this time can be said to be calm and did not cause much repercussions.

However, in North America, where it has been on sale for more than 3 months, Haoran Fat Reducing Ling has become an online celebrity weight loss medicine, especially popular among young people.

……

New Brunswick, in the study of Riel Manor.

Roger prepared a thick document and began to report.

"Sir, according to the data obtained by Conston's laboratory, the female parent of this insect egg should be an insect called 'human skin fly' produced in the Amazon rainforest."

"But its genome has undergone extremely complex modifications, and its appearance has completely changed..."

"Don't tell me this damn biology stuff, just get to the point!"

Stephen Riel was sitting in the office, with a white towel on his stomach, and his face looked both happy and annoyed.

Fortunately, the obesity problem that has troubled me for many years finally has hope of being solved.

What is annoying is that the company spent more than one billion US dollars, hired hundreds of researchers, and spent three years. The researched products have not yet been launched, but they have been sentenced to death.

Speaking of which, as the boss behind a biotech company that owns weight-loss products, it is ironic that he still needs to use other people's products to lose weight.

Feeling the anger of the big boss, Roger wiped his sweat and got straight to the point and said:
"According to Dr. Emma, ​​it is impossible for her and her team, or any biological team in the world, to decipher the mechanism without more than 15 years."

"Year 15?"

"The loli on Epstein Island can become mature women!"

"I asked you to be the CEO, not to hear such frustrating news. Since you can't decipher it, then go buy it!"

Stephen Riel slapped the table angrily, "I heard that this technology came from UCLA's Technology Transformation Department? Isn't our group and UCLA's school board always on good terms? Spend more money to bribe their school board Dong, and then snatch the management right at a reasonable price, you don’t need me to teach you this kind of thing, right?”

"No no no!"

Roger shook his head quickly and said, "Mr. Riel, the matter is not that simple."

"After our investigation, the real research and development unit behind this product is a Chinese company, and this company is the parent company of the North American distributor. The UCLA Technology Transformation Department is just a tool in the middle to avoid tax laws."

"Chinese company?"

Roger frowned, "Since when did Chinese even appear in the field of biopharmaceuticals?"

Since China completed its industrialization, Chinese companies have appeared in engineering, energy, machinery, aviation, communications, and even top technology fields such as large aircraft.

They break the rules set by Western civilization and are restless spoilers.

In some areas, the Chinese have achieved an almost unstoppable lead.

For example, 5G communication.

In some areas, the technology mastered by the Chinese, although relatively low-end, is enough to force the entire industry to make concessions.

For example, large aircraft manufacturing.

Today, there are only limited fields such as chips and biopharmaceuticals, and the Chinese can't say much.

But now, things seem to have changed.

Seemingly seeing the solemn expression on the big boss's face, Roger further said: "We have already contacted this Chinese company, and the other party has no intention of selling patents or accepting venture capital."

"Hmph, if I were the Chinese with the patent in my hand, I wouldn't hand over this cash cow."

Stephen stroked the raised beard on his lips, his thoughts spinning rapidly.

Although he doesn't know any technology and is not as proficient in business management as Indian executives, Stephen has rich experience in how to use the power of the company and the state machine as the speaker of the Riel family.

"Sir, this is the hot word search index of the New marketing model..."

"Wait, what did you just say?"

Stephen interrupted Roger, his eyebrows raised.

"I mean, using short videos for product marketing..."

"I'm not talking about this, just a little earlier."

"You mean, trending index and steep curve?"

"Not this, go ahead!"

"X platform?"

"That's right! That's it!"

Stephen stood up abruptly, the towel fell off his stomach, revealing the orange peel lines caused by the rapid fat loss and the skin had not had time to adapt.

But he didn't care about all of this at all. Instead, he pressed his hands firmly on the desk, leaned forward, approached the face of the Indian executive, and asked:
“In the previous publicity package, some people got millions of dollars from us and didn’t do anything, right?”

"No... that's right..."

Roger swallowed and said quickly, "But Mr. Chairman, I don't recommend recovering this fund. Doing so may destroy..."

“Who said there was going to be a recovery of funds?”

Stephen Riel withdrew his head, smiled, and said, "Instead of recovering the funds, we will continue to send them money!"

"what do you mean?"

"What is the strongest thing about us in America?"

"Is it the military bases dotted across the four oceans?"

"Is it the headquarters of a high-tech company in Silicon Valley?"

"Is Wall Street sucking blood from the whole world with financial games?"

"Is the Fed collecting seigniorage globally with unlimited money printing?"

"Is it Hollywood that portrays all the bloody and greedy behaviors above as the righteous and majestic American dream, and convinces people all over the world to believe it?"

……

"Yes, that's all."

"But biotechnology is the real peak of tomorrow, which determines the future trend of human civilization, and now, the Chinese are storming this mountain."

"I'm not making this up. If you look up Chinese newspapers, you can see that as early as 20 years ago, they proposed a strategy like 'the 21st century is the century of biology'."

"It's terrible, it's really terrible!"

"For such a far-sighted nation, such a nation with such action, it is time for us to mobilize the power of the country to carefully examine the background and violations of this Chinese company!"

"Either drive them out of the North American market!, or..."

Stephen showed a look you know.

……

Listening to the big boss's dancing speech, Roger also laughed.

Indeed, if it is for this reason, it should be successful!

No, it is sure to succeed!

At this moment, Roger felt that the several million dollars he had spent before was really a bargain.

"Okay, Mr. Chairman, I will try to make an appointment for you to meet Mr. Congressman this week."

Roger gave the big boss a reassuring look, then packed up the files and exited the study.

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