Both SidesThe name CanSino represents the Chinese characters for health, hope and promises, while in English it’s a combination of Canada and China.
Besides Yu, other top officials at the firm have Canadian connections. Chief Scientific Officer Zhu Tao was also a senior scientist at Sanofi Pasteur in Canada.
The company’s success has relied on threading the needle between both nations.In February 2014, about five years after returning to China, Yu licensed a technology from the National Research Council of Canada called HEK 293 cell lines, which is required to produce large quantities of a vaccine reliably.