Dr. Jacqueline Lui, President of Eagle IP Group, chaired a panel discussion titled “Intellectual Property Protection In Life Science” at the Hong Kong Biotech Horizon 2017: Global Congress on Biotechnology: Diagnostics and Therapeutics.
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