Vitargent introduction20130507

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• Established reference cases, including recruiting top cosmetics companies, partnering with leading testing labs and establishing key government relationships;

• Launched the “estrogen safe mark” together with the Hong Kong Standard Testing Center and Hong Kong Safety Institute;

• Obtained the HKAS accreditations ( ISO 17025), which enables Vitargent to be the first and only accredited testing lab in Asia to provide fish embryo toxicity (FET) testing;

• Ensured all the R&D are on track – breakthrough of dioxin transgenic fish for a mature market;

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Achievements

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What we are looking for

Strategic Investors/Partners that can help • Promote the estrogen safety certification program to

mainland, China and overseas; • Develop the unique testing method as a local testing

standard for a certain city or province; • Merge with a more established company with similar

business to go for IPO.

• Vitargent (International) Biotechnology Co. Limited

• Established: April 2010, Hong Kong

• Scientific team starts the research project in the National State Key Lab in early 2001;

• Headquarters: HK Science and Technology Park

• Funding: over 10 million HKD from government and angel investors in first round

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Background

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Management Team

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Founder and BD Director Mr. Eric Chen

• B. Sc ( Manufacturing &

Management) CityU

• Master of Econ, HKU

• Business Solutions Officer,

Cathay Pacific

• Won over 20 regional and

international competition

• Played baseball for China

CTO Dr. Chen Xue Ping

• B. Sc (Biology Education) Hunan Normal

University

• Mphil (Zoology) Xiamen University

• PhD, (Biology and Environment Science)

CityU

• One of the two inventors of the transgenic

fish

• Have 6 years’ research experience in

pollution monitoring and toxicology

• Senior Researcher of China State-Key Lab Financial Director

Mr. Jeffrey Cheung

• B. Sc ( Finance and Computer

Science) University of

Pennsylvania

• MBA, Corporate Strategy &

Operations Management, MIT

• Executive Program – Standford

• Holds key management and

investment positions in Sony

(Internet Division), AIG (Consumer

Finance Group), ITVentures HK

(Investment Division), Skytel (Asia

Region), Bell Mobility Canada and

Proctor and Gamble

CEO Mr. Jimmy Tao

• BSc(Hons) (Management & Marketing of

Textiles University of Manchester

• Mphil (Industrial Systems, Manufacture

and Management) University of

Cambridge

• CEO of Sunfly Electronics Technoloy Ltd

• Co-Founder and Managing Partner of

Novanic Electronic ( listed)

• Internal Consultant for AgustaWestland

• Project Researcher of Caterpillar UK,

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Prof . Ho Kin Chung The Open University of Hong

Kong

Dr. Masato Kinoshita Kyoto University

Prof. David Hinton Duke University

Prof. Daniel Schelenk University of California,

Riverside

Scientific Advisory Board

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• Dean of School of Science and

Technology (OpenU)

• Chairman of Advisory Committee

on the Quality of Water Supplies

• Member of the Advisory Committee

for Red Tides

• President of Green Power

• Awardee of the Bronze Bauhinia

Star badge by the Chief Executive

of HKSAR to honour his

outstanding contributions to

environmental protection

• Deputy Editor of “Comparative

Hepatology”

• Review Team Leader of “Norwegian

Research Council”

• Member of

Society of Toxicological

Pathologist

Society of Toxicology

International Academy of

Pathology, and

Society of Environmental

Toxicology and Chemistry

• Co-editor in Chief of Aquatic

Toxicology

• Permanent member to the

USEPA - FIFRA Science

Advisory Panel

• Ray Lankester Fellow at the

Marine Biological Association

of the United Kingdom

• visiting scholar at the Chinese

University of Hong Kong and

the Instituto Del Mare in Venice

• Assistant Professor, Division

of Applied Biosciences,

Graduate School of

Agriculture

• Assistant Professor,

Department of Bioresource

Sciences, Faculty of

Agriculture

• Co-Author of the book

“Medaka”

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Strategic Partners

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Vision

Our vision is to build a platform of innovative bio-chemical testing solutions to

enhance the safety of everyday consumer products and to protect the environment

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Business Model

How

• Services

Provide testing services to consumer products (food, drugs, cosmetic) and environmental monitoring;

• Products

Sell products such as “Fish Eggs”, “FishBox”, and franchise the lab

Who

• Government Bodies

• Testing Labs

• Stakeholders in the supply chain ( Raw material suppliers, farms, manufacturers, traders, super markets, retailers, hotels, restaurants, individual consumers)

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Vitargent - Services & Products

Transgenic Estrogen Fish

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Transgenic Dioxin Fish

PCR Platform

Reproductive Disorders

Neurological Disorders

Cancers

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Sexual Precocity

Obesity Developmental Malformations

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Market Needs - Adverse effect of estrogenic chemicals

Malformations Infertility

Top Environmental Pollution

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Market Needs - Adverse effect of Estrogenic Chemicals

• Estrogenic chemicals pollution has become one of the worst anthropogenic threats to human being, biodiversity and ecosystem !

-USEPA

-The Disappearing Male (CBC)

• There are so many estrogenic chemicals in the market.

Not detected does not mean there is no estrogen!

-TVB 东张西望

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Market Needs

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Transgenic Medaka

Pathway Medaka (耐鹽鲭鳉鱼)

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Transgenic Medaka - Research Breakthrough

US Patent No .12/730,956 China Patent No . 201010246876.6

EU Patent No . EP11305315.1

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China National State Key Lab

Food

Drugs Cosmetics and Personal Care

Water Environment

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Market Applications

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The Estrogen Safe Trend

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The Estrogen Safe Trend

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The Estrogen Safety Mark

Launch of the Estrogen Safety Mark at Wong Tai Sin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk9Z5MOlXmM&feature=youtu.be

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Continuous Innovation

Algae Toxin

Persistent organic Pollutants

Heavy Metals

Dioxin

Thyroid Endocrine disruptors

Estrogenic chemicals

2011 2010 2012 2013 2014

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Food Feed

Factory

Environment Others

Dioxin Fish – existing market E3FO :Environment ,Food, Feed ,Factory , and Others

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Dioxin Fish – scientific breakthrough

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• GMO Qualitative

• GMO Quantitative

• Food Allergy Testing

• Species Identification ( Bird’s nest, Shark,

Cordyceps)

PCR

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Contact

- Mr. Eric Chen

- Vitargent (International) Biotechnology Co. Limited

- Phone: (852) 60955366

- Fax: (852) 28654017

- Email: [email protected]

- HK Office Address: Unit 516, Biotech Center 2, Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong

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