Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2006

Chinese University Bulletin Autumn · Winter 2006 50 S hun Hing Education and Charity Fund, Tsinghua University and The Chinese University signed a memorandum of understanding and announced on 29 June 2006 their joint effort to set up the William Mong Eye Centre of Tsinghua University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong in Beijing. The amount of funds needed to establish the Joint Eye Centre is about HK$70 million. Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund will initially donate some HK$30 million. The centre will be adjacent to the newly-built Affiliated Hospital of Tsinghua University. It is expected to be in full operation in mid-2008. T he State Key Laboratory in Oncology in South China (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) officially opened on 16 November. Located at the Sir Y.K. Pao Centre for Cancer of the Prince of Wales Hospital, the State Key Laboratory in Oncology in South China is a scientific research centre of national level focusing on cancers of high prevalence in Asia. It is the only State Key Laboratory in Hong Kong for cancer. Its establishment was formally approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Activities & Events William Mong Eye Centre Established Officiating at the ceremony were (from left) Prof. Cen Zhangzhi, Vice-President of Tsinghua University, Prof. Dennis S.C. Lam, Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences of CUHK, Prof. Lawrence J. Lau, Vice-Chancellor of CUHK, Dr. William M.W. Mong, chairman of Shun Hing Group, Prof. Yang Jiaqing, vice-chairman of Tsinghua University Education Foundation, Mr. David Mong, chairman of Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund, and Prof. Zuo Huancong, president of Yu Quan Hospital of Tsinghua University China in October 2006, and was built on the foundation of the University’s long- established partnership with Sun Yat-sen University in cancer research, and with the support of the Education and Manpower Bureau of the HKSAR government. The Laboratory is backed by a strong clinical base, made possible by the support of the Hospital Authority and the Health, Welfare and Food Bureau of the HKSAR govern- ment. The research focus of the laboratory will be cancers which are especially threatening to the Guangdong population. State Key Laboratory in Oncology in South China Opens