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The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) played host to three Gordon Research Conferences (GRC) Meetings during 7-26 July.

CUHK hosts Gordon Research Conferences Meetings for the second year

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) played host to three Gordon Research Conferences (GRC) Meetings during 7-26 July. Some 300 participants from around the world attended the meetings at CUHK this year. The meeting "Germinal Stem Cell Biology" was chaired by Prof. Chan Wai-yee, Director of CUHK's School of Biomedical Sciences. The other two meetings "Infections of the Nervous System" and "T Follicular Helper Cells" were chaired by Prof. Roberto Bruzzone, Pasteur Research Centre, the University of Hong Kong, and Prof. Chen Dong, MD Anderson Cancer Centre, University of Texas, respectively. At each meeting, scientists with common research interests came together for a full week of intense discussion and examination of frontier research in the three topics.

GRC is a world renowned organization that puts together conferences and seminars in the fields of biological, chemical and physical sciences. Initiated by Dr. Neil E. Gordon of the Johns Hopkins University in the late 1920s, GRC organizes almost 200 meetings every year in a number of sites in the US, Italy, Switzerland and Hong Kong.

Rewarding experience gained from research attachments

During the academic year of 2012–13, five PhD students from CUHK were awarded under the PhD Student Exchange Programme to undertake a research attachment at Brown University, US; University of Bristol and University of Leeds, UK; and Utrecht University, the Netherlands; to pursue projects of their academic interests under the supervision of eminent researchers for three to six months.

Launched in 2011–12, the PhD Student Exchange Programme is part of CUHK's ongoing drive to expand its network with international partners for joint research collaborations. The programme is designed to enhance research excellence at CUHK through building and strengthening the University's ties with leading research universities and institutes around the world. It also serves to increase the visibility of CUHK as a world-class research university through student mobility.

Reciprocally, CUHK hosted four visiting PhD students from the University of Bristol, UK, and Utrecht University, the Netherlands. To learn about the positive impacts the exchange experiences have had on the students' personal lives and professional career, please click on the links below:

PhD students from CUHK

Visiting PhD students

The call for application of the PhD Student Exchange Programme for 2014-15 will be announced at www.oal.cuhk.edu.hk in January 2014.