Bulletin No. 2, 2016

News in Brief 45 School of Life Sciences Signed Agreement with UC Berkeley Prof. Wong Kam-bo (1st right, back row), Director of the School of Life Sciences, and Prof. Randy Wayne Schekman (2nd left, back row), Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at Universit y of California at Berkeley and 2013 Nobel laureate in Phy si o l ogy o r Medicine, visited CUHK to sign a five-year Memorandum of Understanding. Starting from the academic year of 2016–17, up to five students from the School of Life Sciences will be sent to enroll in the Berkeley Biosciences Study Abroad Programme for a semester annually. The students may also get internship opportunities at the research laboratories of UC Berkeley. Therese Pei Fong Chow Research Centre for Prevention of Dementia Established The Faculty of Medicine established the Therese Pei Fong Chow Research Centre for Prevention of Dementia with the generous donation from Ms. Therese Pei Fong Chow (right). This is Hong Kong’s first dementia prevention research centre, which aims to raise public awareness on the available treatments and preventive measures against dementia through innovative research and education. A one-stop online platform was also set up to provide information on the disease. Launch of Digital Chinese Medicine Texts Collection The School of Chinese Medicine and the University Library jointly launched in July 2016 the Chinese Medicine Texts Collection to store and digitize about 2,500 scolls of ancient texts related to Chinese medicine. The collection includes part of the invaluable ‘Professor Chong Siu Cheung Chinese Medicine Collection’ generously donated by Prof. Kong Yun-cheung, the founding Director of the School of Chinese Medicine. Activities And events