Table of Contents I 58

CUHK Research

Foreword 3
The Basics 4
Channel to Life 8
Tracing the Neutrino Back to Our Origin 9
The Story of EXPO 11
Mathematical Explanation for Changing Patterns in Nature 13
Making the Impossible Possible 15
The Benchmarks 16
The Development of Sport Science Research in Hong Kong 19
Meeting of the Minds, East and West 21
The Roadmap to Fight “Cantonese” Cancer 23
Laying the Foundation for the Study of Hong Kong Literature 25
New Paradigm of Network Communications 27
The Benefits 28
Leading the Revolution in Supply Chain Management for Asian Manufacturers 31
Genomic Snapshots in Utero 33
City Planning for Healthy Living 35
Stabilizing and Strengthening Food Supply in China 37
Sign Language: A Link between the Hearing and the Deaf Worlds 39
The Manifold Expertise of CUHK Scholars 40
Stellar Achievements 43
Five Focused Areas of Research 44
Chinese Studies 44
Biomedical Sciences 44
Information Sciences 45
Economics and Finance 45
Geoinformation and Earth Sciences 45
CUHK Areas of Excellence Projects 46
Information Technology 46
Centre for Plant and Agricultural Biotechnology 46
Chinese Medicine Research and Further Development 47
Centre for Research into Circulating Fetal Nucleic Acids 47
Institute of Network Coding 47
The Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society 48
Centre for Organelle Biogenesis and Function 48
CUHK State Key Laboratories 49
State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China (Partner Laboratory in The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 49
State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology (Partner Laboratory at The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 50
State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China (Partner Laboratory in The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 50
State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry 51
State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease (Partner Laboratory in The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 51
Institute of Chinese Studies 52
Shenzhen Research Institute 53
Knowledge Transfer: the Third Mission of the University 54
Research Institutes 55
Research in Numbers 56
Number of Projects and Amount Awarded by Research Grants Council General Research Fund 2013–14 56
Projects Funded by Research Grants Council Collaborative Research Fund 2013–14 56
Projects Funded by Research Grants Council Theme-based Research Scheme 56

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