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> The Chinese University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences
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| Donation Date: |
April and August of 2005 |
The newly established Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences will focus on integrative transdisciplinary science in health promotion and disease prevention, mechanisms, diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, clinical sciences, and regenerative medicine. A distinguishing feature of the Institute is the innovative and interdisciplinary approach emphasizing research projects aimed at translating advances in basic and molecular sciences into tests and treatments that will benefit patients and promote health.
The Li Ka Shing Foundation has also established two Li Ka Shing Professorships at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). The first is currently held by Dr. Dennis Lo, who also serves as the Director of the Institute. Professor Hsiao-chang Chan, Professor of Physiology and Director of Epithelial Cell Biology Research Center, holds the second endowed professorship.
The Institute is housed within the Li Ka Shing Medical Sciences Building, completed in September 2007, at the Prince of Wales Hospital.
CUHK and the Foundation have a history of successful collaborations. Two specialist clinics at the Prince of Wales Hospital were built with the support of the Foundation in 1984 and 1997, respectively. In 2001, CUHK joined forces with Shantou University, which is one of the Foundation's major ongoing projects, to found the Joint Shantou International Eye Center to provide quality patient care and to establish a new social model for medical relief through the establishment of a platform and network for the delivery of medical skills and technology.
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| Significance: |
- Society will reap huge benefits from advances in the life sciences that grow out of a broad and integrative view of science; great minds must be given opportunities to realize their vision.
- Translate advances in basic and molecular sciences into tests and treatments that will benefit patients and promote health.
- Facilitate stronger collaboration between academia, industry, and government to capitalize on the momentum of fast pace development in biotechnology.
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