WIJ Healthcare (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. recently celebrated its two-year anniversary. The entire team gathered at TRK Sports Restaurant & Bar on the North Bund, toasting great food while sharing personal stories of growth and inspiration at WIJ. The highlight of the evening was the announcement that Prof. Jin-Rong Zhou of Harvard Medical School has joined the company, injecting powerful new momentum into its future.
Vibrant Innovation – Setting New Industry Trends with an Innovative Mindset
In its first two years, WIJ has concentrated on anti-aging and antioxidation solutions across cosmetics, food and pharmaceuticals. Its portfolio now includes Pure Vida, PureStar, Orchid Heart and several other novel raw materials and finished products—the market recognition by virtue of its excellent quality and innovative technology.
Rather than incremental tweaks, the company pursues source-level innovation, exploring entirely new mechanisms and molecules. Its proprietary concepts of "cosmetic-food homology" and "emotional skincare" have broken traditional molds and opened fresh industry pathways, quickly becoming the new vogue and showcasing formidable creative force. As skincare opinion leader Bing Han put it, “China needs to tell its own R&D story.”
Youthful Ambition – Aiming to Become a Synthetic-Biology "Unicorn" and a Global Operator
WIJ's vision is crystal-clear: to evolve into China's unicorn in synthetic biology and, ultimately, into a global multinational corporation. This goal reflects both confidence in its technological power and the determination to keep pushing the frontier of synthetic biology and medical health care.
Medical-Research Co-Creation – Harvard Medical School's Prof. Jin-Rong Zhou Boosts Anti-Aging Research
The highlight of Two-Year Anniversary was the arrival of Prof. Jin-Rong Zhou, Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Nutrition & Metabolism Laboratory at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and a National Innovative Talent.
Prof. Zhou has long investigated how nutrition and natural bioactive molecules prevent or treat tumors, metabolic disorders, neuro-psychiatric diseases and aging. His deep academic expertise and extensive research experience will now be fully leveraged at WIJ to spearhead the construction of an Anti-Aging Research Center, bringing a qualitative leap to the company’s R&D and further sharpening its core competitiveness.
As an international innovation team, WIJ group has grown from 2 to 12 members in just two years. Upholding the values of synthetic creativity, diversity, resilience and shared gains, the company nurtures a learning organization that absorbs lessons and achieves milestone results. Its uniquely management approach integrating Chinese and Western elements continues to attract top-tier talent. Guided by innovative thinking, supported by a formidable team and now strengthened by world-class experts like Prof. Zhou, WIJ will surely become a leader in differentiated competition in the fields of synthetic biology and anti-aging.