Vice-Premier Li Keqiang (2nd left, back row) witnessed on 17 August the signing of a collaboration agreement between CUHK and BGI for clinical genetic testing. 


According to the agreement signed by CUHK Vice-Chancellor Prof. Joseph J.Y. Sung (left, front row) and BGI chairman Prof. Yang Huanming (right, front row), the two parties will use CUHK’s laboratory for human genomics at the Prince of Wales Hospital as a base to do clinical genetic testing to study the causes and treatment of a variety of diseases, and launch study projects on human genomics.