The Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) comprise five institutes and numerous other labs and facilities. SIAT was jointly established by CAS, the Shenzhen municipal government and the Chinese University of Hong Kong in February 2006. SIAT aims to enhance the innovative capacity of the equipment manufacturing and service industries in the Guangdong-Hong Kong region, promote the development of emerging industries possessing their own proprietary intellectual property, and become a world-class industrial research institute.
SIAT’s main component divisions include the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Integration Technology (SIIT), the Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering (IBHE), the Institute of Advanced Computing and Digital Engineering (IACDE), the Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology (IBB) ,the Institute of Brain Cognition and Brain Disorders(IBCBD) and the Guangzhou Institute of Advanced Technology (GIAT), as well as the National Engineering Laboratory of Biomedical Informatics and Healthcare and the National Engineering Laboratory of High-density Integrated Circuit Packaging Technology. It is also home to five key labs and platforms at the provincial level and 18 key labs and platforms at the municipal level.