Vitargent is a Hong Kong-based biotechnology company that provides testing services and products to assess the impact of estrogenic chemicals and other pollutants. It has established several reference cases working with cosmetics companies and testing labs. Vitargent launched an "estrogen safe mark" and obtained accreditation making it the only lab in Asia that can provide certain toxicity testing. It is seeking strategic partners to help promote its programs, develop testing standards, and potentially pursue an IPO. Vitargent's services and products assess chemicals/pollutants like dioxins and it utilizes transgenic fish models to detect estrogenic substances in products like food, drugs, and the environment.

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2. • 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.

4. • 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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8. 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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- Services & Products
Transgenic Estrogen Fish
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Transgenic Dioxin Fish
PCR Platform

11. 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

12. Malformations Infertility
Top Environmental Pollution
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Market Needs
- Adverse effect of Estrogenic Chemicals

13. • 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
PathwayMedaka (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

16. 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
20112010 2012 2013 2014
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21. 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: eric.chen@vitargent.com
- HK Office Address: Unit 516, Biotech Center 2, Hong Kong
Science Park, Hong Kong
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