Licensing Opportunities

The Chinese University of Hong Kong is engaged in research over a broad front, and many of its research results can be of immediate benefit to society. The University therefore actively protects and works with partners to transfer its research results to the community.

Results, technologies and products ready for transfer or collaboration are listed in this Technology Digest, and expressions of interest are invited from the public. All inquiries and expressions of interest should be addressed to:

Technology and Licensing Office
Rm 226, Pi Ch'iu Building
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, N.T. Hong Kong SAR
Tel: (852) 2609 8885
Fax: (852) 2603 5451
Email: tech_license@cuhk.edu.hk, or through the relevant web pages.

Please also see remarks and conditions below.

Categories:
　

Life Sciences
Engineering / Computer Science
Physical Science

Life Sciences

Title of Technology		Reference No.	Posting Date
	Application of purple acid phosphatase genes and their products to enhance tolerance toward salinity, drought and other abiotic stresses in plants and plant cells cultures	06/SCI/229	23/08/2006
	The Use of siRNA against SARS Coronavirus	05/MED/215	23/08/2006
	Novel Markers for Prenatal Diagnosis and Monitoring	05/MED/212	24/07/2006
	An Lysine-enriched Protein and Its Application on Breeding Transgenic Plant Seeds with Enhanced Nutritive Value	05/SCI/206	02/12/2005
	Utilization of a Novel TNF-and steroid-modulator BRE (TNFRSF1A modulator) to alleviate and counter conditions associated with tissue damage, inflammation and other effects	05/MED/205	30/11/2005
	Monoclonal antibodies to SARS-CoV Nucleocapsid and X1 proteins	05/MED/202	30/11/2005
	Extract of a Medicinal Mushroom, Polyporus Rhinoceros Cooke. and Composition of the Same Having Antiproliferation of Human Cancer Cells and Immune Enhancing Activity	05/SCI/193	01/10/2005
	The Unique Potent Bioactive Protein (POL) from the Chinese Medicinal herb, Yuzhu, Polygonatum odoratum (Liliaceae)	04/SCI/188	14/03/2005
	3D Protein Binding Interface Prediction Program	04/SCI/187	14/03/2005
	A Method for the Detection of Chromosomal Aneuploidies	04/MED/181	14/03/2005
	A Submerged Fermentation Protocol for production of citrinin-free red Monascus biomass as a Mineral-rich and Proteinaceous but low fat Functional Food	04/SCI/180	14/03/2005
	Cultivation of a New Mushroom and its Preparation of Novel Mushroom Dietary Fiber or Non-Starch Polysaccharides and their Derivatives having Antitumor and Other Biological Activities as Potential Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals	04/SCI/177	5/7/2004
	Markers for prenatal diagnosis and monitoring	04/MED/175	14/03/2005
	A Marker for prenatal diagnosis and monitoring	04/MED/169	14/03/2005
	Epididymis-specific Defensins-based Methods for Evaluating and Affecting Male Fertility	04/MED/168	2/7/2004
	Genomic Markers of Hepatits B Virus in Hepatocellular Carcinoma	04/MED/167	14/03/2005
	Epitope Identification and Modification for Reduced Allergenic Activity in Proteins Targeted for Transgenic Expression	04/SCI/165	18/10/2004
	Frame-shifting PCR for germline immunoglobulin genes retrieval and antibody engineering	03/MED/158	22/3/2004
	Use of a Combination of Genetic Markers to Predict Risk of Diabetic Kidney Disease for Recommendation to Enroll in a Diabetic Kidney Disease Management Program in Chinese Type 2 Diabetic Patients	03/MED/151	1/5/2004
	A Novel Biomarker for Cancer Therapeutics Response	03/MED/145	6/2/2004
	Feed enhances the flavor quality in aquaculture animals	03/SCI/144	15/7/2003
	Active Ingredients Preparation and Single Compound Purification from Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine Trichosanthes and Uses Thereof	02/SCI/127	1/6/2003
	A Plant Gene Expression System for Processing, Targeting and Accumulation of Foreign Proteins in Transgenic Seeds	02/SCI/126	26/7/2003
	Noninvasive prenatal testing	02/MED/122	1/3/2005
	Natural cholinesterase inhibitors to treat cognitive impairment	02/MED/119	1/6/2003
	Methods for evaluating a disease condition	02/MED/103	1/2/2005
	A Catalogue of Chinese-relevant Markers for Diabetic Nephropathy	02/MED/097	1/3/2002
	Detection of cells or DNA of different origins within the body	01/MED/082	1/3/2005
	A Method for Assessing the Genetic Risk for Cataract	01/MED/074	1/6/2001
	A Catalogue of Chinese-relevant Genetic Markers for Diabetes	01/MED/072	1/9/2001
	New Class of Antitussive Components Isolated from Traditional Chinese Medicinal Herb and the Herbal Extracts	01/MED/071	9/8/2002
	石斛的DNA序列及利用該序列鑒定其品種或辨別其真偽的方法	00/MED/067	2/3/2001
	DNA-DNA Hybridization on Solid Support for the Authentication of Traditional Chinese Medicines	00/SCI/069	10/1/2001
	Non-Invasive Prenatal Monitoring	00/MED/063	1/2/2005
	Teaching Model for Beating Heart Coronary Artery Anastomoses	97/MED/028	7/9/1999
	Method and Compositions for Lowering Blood Lipids	97/SCI/019	7/9/1997
	Platinum Complexes	97/SCI/018	29/6/1999
	Authentication of American and Oriental Ginsengs by DNA Technology	96/MED/013	2/3/1999

Engineering / Computer Science

Title of Technology		Reference No.	Posting Date
	Novel Power Saving Schemes for RFID System Implementation	06/ENG/222	23/08/2006
	Piezoelectric Actuated Suspension with Passive Damping in Hard Disk Drives	05/ENG/214	02/12/2005
	System and Methods for Quantum Key Distribution over Multi-user WDM Links	05/ENG/208	02/12/2005
	A simple differential phase imaging surface plasmon resonance sensor using liquid crystal modulator	05/ENG/204	30/11/2005
	An Integrated RF Balun-filter with Enhanced Rejection Characteristics	05/ENG/201	30/11/2005
	An Integrated LTCC mm-Wave Planar Array Antenna with Low Loss Feeding Network	05/ENG/200	30/11/2005
	NILing, A Network Informal Language Adaptor	05/ENG/199	30/11/2005
	Field Programmable Gate Array Implementation of Neuronal Ion Channel Dynamics in Real Time	05/ENG/198	30/11/2005
	Pressurized Magnetorheological fluid damper	05/ENG/197	30/11/2005
	Conversion between Transform Coefficients	05/ENG/194	30/11/2005
	Random Number Generator	05/ENG/191	14/03/2005
	Quantum Key Distribution over WDM Fiber Links and Quantum Cryptography with Wavelength Routing	05/ENG/190	14/03/2005
	Optical Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensor Based on Differential Phase Interrogation and Phase Enhancement Using a Fabry-Perot Cavity	05/ENG/189	14/03/2005
	A method of cuffless continuous blood pressure measurement using the features extracted from photoplethysmographic signal in period domain	04/ENG/185	14/03/2005
	Non-Contact vital signs monitoring	04/ENG/184	14/03/2005
	Audio-Assisted Video Based Face Recognition	04/ENG/183	14/03/2005
	Random Sampling for Face Recognition	04/ENG/182	14/03/2005
	A Compact Meander-Line Inverted-F Antenna	04/ENG/166	14/03/2005
	Conversion between ICT and DCT coefficients	04/ENG/164	15/4/2004
	Block-based Fragment Filtration with feasible Multi-GPU acceleration for Real-time Volume Rendering on Standard PC	03/ENG/160	30/4/2004
	Automatic Digital Enhancement System	03/ENG/150	25/2/2004
	Automatic temperature compensation for cuffless blood pressure measurement using photoplethysmography	03/ENG/146	26/8/2003
	A Consonant Broadcasting Architecture for Large-Scale Video Streaming	03/ENG/147	18/8/2003
	A new minaturized and low power photoplethysmograph measuring device for the monitoring of human vital signs	03/ENG/138	1/6/2003
	簡化測量血壓程序的信號頂端點搜尋方法與線路	03/ENG/135	1/6/2003
	Bio-Sensor-Based Mobile Wireless Device for Physiological Signals Acquisition	03/ENG/134	1/6/2003
	Noninvasive Measurement of Arterial Blood Pressure Using Radial Pulse	03/ENG/133	1/6/2003
	Method for Personal Identity Verification Based on Photoplethysmographic Signals	03/ENG/132	1/6/2003
	A Method for Human Verification Using Evoked Action Potential Signal	03/ENG/131	1/6/2003
	A New Mechanical Press with Controllable Mechanism (Hybrid Driven Mechanical Press)	03/ENG/129	1/6/2003
	Broadband Millimeter-Wave Waveguide to Laminated Waveguide Transition	02/ENG/109	17/10/2002
	Optical Waveguide Employing Modified Gallium Arsenide	94/ENG/003	12/2/1999
	Context-based, Adaptive Lossless Image Codec	95/ENG/009	11/5/1999
	Method for Compression of Loss-Tolerant Data	94/ENG/005	31/3/1998
	An Associative Internet/Intranet Search Engine	97/ENG/021	15/8/1997
	CU Vocal - A Cantonese Text to Speech Technology
	AOPA (Author Once, Present Anywhere) software platform
	CU Talk / CU Corpora / CU Call

Physical Science

Title of Technology		Reference No.	Posting Date
	Linked Cyclopentadienyl-Dicarbollide Complexes of Titanium, Zirconium and Hafnium	04/SCI/162	1/4/2004
	Preparation and Application of Self-Cleaning, Antibacterial, and Photocatalytic Nanocrystalline TiO2 Thin Film Coatings on Glass	02/SCI/123	10/1/2003
	Synthesis by Selectively Rupturing Hydrogen from Adsorbed Molecules with Hydrogen Collision	01/SCI/090	12/6/2002
	Metallic White Decorative Hard Coatings with a Platinum-like Color	01/SCI/083	10/11/2001
	Novel Synthesis of Long Multi-block Heteropolymer Chains with an Ordered Sequence and Controllable Block Lengths	01/SCI/084	12/6/2001
	Metal Matrix Composite Materials Reinforced by Intermetallic Compounds and Ceramics	96/SCI/011	26/10/1999
	Fast-response and Stronger Polymer Gel and Its Potential Biomedical Application	96/SCI/015	20/2/2000

Remarks and Conditions:

1. The Chinese University of Hong Kong reserves the right to enter into any technology transfer arrangements, including exclusive licensing arrangements, 4 weeks after any technology has been posted on this site. In addition to the listing of the technology on this site, the University may promote the technology through other means. All expression of interests will be taken into consideration.

2. The University is not bound to accept the best or any expression of interests received and it accepts no liability for any costs associated with any expression of interests made relating to the listed projects whether they are selected or not.

3. All accepted expression of interests will be subject to legally binding agreements.