CUHK E-Newsletter
 
Volume 4 No. 1
26 January, 2007
 
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Breakthrough in Foetal Down's Syndrome Testing by CUHK Researchers
A revolutionary approach for the noninvasive prenatal testing of Down's syndrome developed by a team led by Prof. Dennis Lo Yuk-ming from the Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences of The Chinese University Faculty of Medicine was reported in the latest issue of the top biomedical journal Nature Medicine. The research was supported by the Innovation and Technology Fund of the Hong Kong SAR Government and the Chair Professorship Scheme of the Li Ka Shing Foundation.
 (From left) Prof. Rossa Chiu Wai Kwun of the Department of Chemical Pathology, Prof. Tze Kin Lau of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Prof. Dennis Lo Yuk-ming, Director of the Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, and Dr. Nancy Tsui Bo Yin, postdoctoral fellow of the Department of Chemical Pathology
CUHK and Zhejiang University Deepen Collaboration with Joint Laboratory on Natural Products and Toxicology Research
The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Zhejiang University (ZJU) signed collaboration agreements and opened the Joint Laboratory on Natural Products and Toxicology Research on 15 January 2007. Four collaboration agreements were renewed or signed to deepen the long-term academic partnership between these two major universities of China. Prof. Zhang Junsheng, Chairman of ZJU Development Committee, and Prof. Yang Wei, President of ZJU, led a 16-member delegation to CUHK.
Prof. Kenneth Young (right 6, front row), Pro-Vice-Chancellor of CUHK, Prof. Zhang Junsheng (right 7, front row), Prof. Yang Wei (right 5, front row), and representatives of the two universities

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