| 11-06-2008 |
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Establishment of the Downstream Development Seed Fund
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| To encourage research and technology transfer activities,
the Patent Committee of the University has created the Seed
Fund. It is accessible to University researchers for the
development of technologies and concepts for commercialization.
The Seed Fund will enable University researchers who are in need
of seed/proof of concept funding to optimize their technologies
so as to make them more attractive to the industries for
technology transfer activities. Applications should be directed
to the Technology Licensing Office using the
application form for
onward submission to the Patent Committee for consideration.
For enquiries, please contact Ms. Gadys Wong at 2609 8863. |
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| 29-04-2008 |
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Workshop on 29th April 2008 at 12:15 pm: “From Ideas to Startup
- A primer for campus entrepreneurs” |
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Rundown
12:15-12:30 Registration (Pizza and soft drinks will be served)
12:30-12:35 Welcome Speech by Ms. Alice Ngan, Director,
Technology Licensing Office
12: 30-1:30 Startup models – why, what, and who by Prof.
Kevin Au & Mr. Mingles Tsoi
Coffee & Tea
2:15-2:45 How VC evaluates spin-offs and
what constitutes a good investment opportunity to VC? by Mr.
Simon Flood, Executive Director, Imprimatur Capital*
2:45-3:15 Q&A (panel of experts)
Venue: LT2, Lady Shaw Building
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| 28-04-2008 |
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BioX @ Science Park
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Date: 28-April 2008 (Monday)
Time: 9:30am-5:00pm
Venue: Auditorium, Hong Kong Science Park, Shatin
Registration: Please registe at
http://www.freecomm.com/hkstp_biox/ |
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| 25-01-2008 |
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"When Do Discoveries Become Innovations?
Inventing New Process and Materials for Innovations with
Materials" Wei Lun Public Lecture by Professor Ludwig J.
Gauckler |
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Time: 5:00pm
Venue: T Y Wong Hall, 5/F, Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building,
CUHK
Online registration: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/cpr/gauckler |
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| 12-11-2007 |
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Workshop on
Commercialization of IP in Photonic and Electronic Engineering
by Imprimatur
Captial |
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A workshop on
Commercialization of Intellectual Property in Photonic and
Electronic Engineering will be held on 15th Nov 2007 from
2:30-3:30pm at RM 222, HSH Engineering Building (Conference Room
of the Department of Electronic Engineering). TLO has invited
Dr. Peter Curley and Mr. Simon Flood of Imprimatur Capital to
share with us their experience in commercializing technologies
in photonic science. They will also be actively
looking for projects that they could help commercialize. |
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| 04-10-2007 |
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CUHK Sets Up the First Food
Composition Database in Hong Kong |
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The
Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has received a funding of
nearly HK$18 million from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities
Trust to set up the first ever Food Composition Database (the
Database) in Hong Kong [Chief Executive’s Community Project List
2006 (S/N Ref 2006/CP01)]. With strong support from the Centre
for Food Safety, Food and Environmental Hygiene Department
(FEHD), the project was put into operation starting from July
this year. Apart from analyzing over 1,000 food ingredients
commonly used in the local territory in the next 3 years, the
Database will provide detailed food composition reference data
and technical support for the local food industry (especially
SMEs) via its website, with a view to assisting the industry to
comply with the proposed Labelling Scheme on Nutrition
Information. The Database will help the industry to reduce the
cost for creating nutrition labels for its food products in the
long term.... |
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| 09-09-2007 |
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CUHK at
Innovation Festival 2007 |
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The
Innovation Festival will be held from 14 to 18 September at Hong
Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. As one of the main
exhibitors, The Chinese University of Hong Kong will display a
series of latest technology breakthroughs. With a space of 350
square meters, the CUHK’s booth is divided into six zones,
including Magic Mirror Corridor, Care for Environment, Health
Care, Wireless Communication, Education Technologies and State
Key Labs, displaying over 20 research projects.... |
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13-08-2007 |
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Multi-centre Study
by CUHK Proves a New Treatment Option for Asian Chronic
Hepatitis C Patients
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Chronic
hepatitis C is an important cause of liver cirrhosis and liver
cancer. According to the 2005 updated report by the Department
of Health, approximately 10% of people with history of blood
transfusion and over 50% of intravenous drug abusers in Hong
Kong are infected by hepatitis C virus. One-fifth of chronic
hepatitis C patients will progress to liver cirrhosis in 20
years, and 1%-4% of cirrhotic patients will develop liver cancer
every year. Currently, the standard treatment of chronic
hepatitis C is combination of peginterferon-alfa and ribavirin.
For genotype 1 hepatitis C virus, which is the commonest yet the
difficult-to-treat viral genotype, 1-year combination treatment
is associated with approximately 50% sustained virological
response, i.e. viral clearance at 6 months after stopping
treatment.... |
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| 06-08-2007 |
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香港中文大學利用衛星遙感技術開展珠江三角洲地區城市環境綜合調查 |
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珠江三角洲地區近二十餘年來，經歷了舉世矚目的快速的城市化過程。城市擴展、人口劇增以及工業企業快速增長，使到這一地區面臨著一系列的生態環境和地質環境問題，包括水資源狀況惡化、土地資源退化、不透水層增加與城市熱島效應、洪澇災害、鹹潮、以及地面沉降等，已經成為該地區可持續發展的制約因素。其中，城市不透水層與地面沉降問題日益突出。... |
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| 08-06-2007 |
| CUHK Breakthrough Research May Point Way to New Treatment
for Prostate Cancer |
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Errors in the way the body’s
cells process information by means of signalling pathways are
responsible for many diseases such as cancer, autoimmunity and
diabetes. In a paper just published in the leading international
journal Cancer Research, researchers from the Department of
Anatomy and the Department of Surgery at The Chinese University
of Hong Kong describe their discovery of a new cell signalling
pathway that is implicated in the development of prostate
cancer. Their study finds ERRγ, a particular subtype of estrogen
receptor-related receptors (ERR), suppresses proliferation and
tumour growth of prostate cancer cells and implies a new
therapeutic target for prostate cancer..... |
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| 06-06-2007 |
| CUHK embarks on the next information revolution –
Network Coding Theory |
| “The history of modern communications systems has
been marked by flashes of startling insight” wrote in
the June issue of Scientific American, is a detailed
report on Network Coding Theory, a theory originated at CUHK by
Professor Shuo-Yen Robert Li, Professor Raymond Wai-Ho Yeung,
Dr. Ning Cai of Department of Information Engineering, and
Professor Rudolf Ahlswede from Germany. Scientific American was
first published in 1845, making it the oldest continuously
published magazine in the United States. It brings articles
about forefront research to a wide range of audiences in both
the U.S. and worldwide.... |
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| 16-02-2007 |
| CUHK Engineering Scientist Awarded Prestigious German
Research Award |
| Professor Raymond Wai-Ho Yeung, Professor of Information
Engineering of The Chinese University of Hong Kong was awarded
the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award to visit Munich
University of Technology from January to April, 2007.... |
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| 07-02-2007 |
| Vice-Chancellor’s Cup of CUHK Nurture Future
Entrepreneurs |
| To be a successful entrepreneur is the shared dream of many
young people. But how to turn good ideas into profitable
business is always the most critical challenge for them. Last
Saturday (February 3rd), 20 students of The Chinese University
of Hong Kong (CUHK) took their first steps down the road to
entrepreneurship by participating in the Vice-Chancellor’s Cup
of Student Entrepreneurship organized by the CUHK’s Center for
Entrepreneurship... |
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| 25-01-2007 |
CUHK and Evivar Medical set up the Centre of
Excellence for the management of Hepatits B
Treatment of viral hepatitis B is hampered by the limited
number of anti-viral drugs available and the frequent emergence
of drug-resistant viruses after a period of medication. There
are many mutations leading to drug resistance exist in the viral
genome which varies in different individuals especially in those
receiving different anti-viral drugs. As the number of drugs
available increases, cross drug resistance profile of the virus
increases significantly, making the correct selection of drug at
the right time increasingly important. A highly complex matrix
of mutation pattern from worldwide data is now collected in a
unique and comprehensive database called SeqHepB.
Information in the database will be invaluable in guiding
clinicians to choose the best anti-viral drugs of individuals
who require treatment.
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| 18-01-2007 |
| CUHK and Zhejiang University Conclude
Collaboration Agreements and Open Joint Laboratory on Natural
Products and Toxicology Research
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) 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 maintain the long-term academic partnership between
the two major universities of China. Professor Zhang Junsheng,
Chairman of ZJU Development Committee, Professor Yang Wei,
President of ZJU led a 16-member delegation to CUHK.
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| 11-01-2007 |
| 香港中文大學成功利用衛星遙感監測渤海遼東灣海冰情況
海冰是極地和中高緯度海域所特有的海洋災害。中國渤海海域和黃海北部海域每年冬天都會發生海冰，其中遼東灣的海冰最為嚴重，從每年十二月中旬到翌年三月上旬都會有海冰發生，冰情嚴重的年份整個遼東灣可完全被海冰覆蓋，對當地的海上交通、沿岸海洋工程、人民的生產和生活以及海上採油平臺的安全造成嚴重威脅，而中國最大的海上油田正位於遼東灣海域，是一個儲量超億噸的海上大油田，總儲量2.5億噸。國家為此每年投入大量的力量進行海冰的監測，包括年花以千萬元計，利用飛機及船隻實地監測海冰形成的情況。... |
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| 09-01-2007 |
| Breakthrough in Down’s Syndrome Testing
Opens to Revolutionary Non-Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis
A revolutionary new approach
for the noninvasive prenatal testing of Down’s syndrome
developed by a team led by Professor Dennis Lo Yuk Ming from the
Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences of the Faculty of
Medicine of The Chinese University of Hong Kong was reported in
the latest issue of the top biomedical journal Nature Medicine.
This research has been supported by the Innovation and
Technology Fund of the Hong Kong SAR Government and the Chair
Professorship Scheme of the Li Ka Shing Foundation.
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| 21-09-2006 |
| CUHK pioneers the use of minimally
invasive and non-invasive lengthening prostheses in children
bone cancer patients
Doctors from The Chinese University of Hong Kong have
successfully implanted Asia’s first non-invasive lengthening
prosthesis to restore leg length following excision of a bone
tumor in a child. This new development follows CUHK’s pioneering
use of a minimally invasive technique to lengthen the limb by
extending the prosthesis. With the new device, children no
longer need repeated surgeries to correct their shortening – the
procedure can be done in the outpatient clinic and does not
require anaesthesia.
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| 07-09-2006 |
| 中大工程學生嶄新科技發明於Intel Cup比賽全國奪冠
香港中文大學計算機科學與工程學系兩支由本科生組成的隊伍在70所國內與亞洲著名大學共158隊參賽隊伍中脫穎而出，奪得2006年英特爾杯全國大學生電子設計競賽嵌入式系統專題邀請賽一等獎，其中一隊更獲最高殊榮——英特爾杯（Intel
Cup）。中大工程學院特別為得獎同學舉行祝捷會，工程學院院長任德盛教授恭賀同學及帶隊老師計算機科學與工程學系蒙耀生教授的傑出成就。... |
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| 17-08-2006 |
| CUHK launches “Curvair”, a Game
Development System, for Fast Design and Production of
Chinese-style Computer Games
The Department of Automation and
Computer-Aided Engineering (ACAE) of The Chinese University of
Hong Kong announced the completion of an advanced 3D game
development system, “Curvair”. One major breakthrough introduced
by Curvair is the use of "Curve-Pair Based Axial Representation”
developed by Professor K.C. Hui from the ACAE department. While
currently most computer games often resort to equip characters
with heavy amour or tight clothes to simplify the characters’
movements, the new technique allows designers to dress
characters in long gowns or robes using a model that resembles
the wavy movements of the real cloth. Curvair also provides a
series of characters, models of Chinese buildings, and a facial
expression editor for easy construction of computer games in
Chinese style.
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