Bulletin Summer‧Autumn 1992

the faculty of medicine at the age of 10 including the British Military Hospital, the Buddhist Hospital, Pok Oi Hospital, Yan Chai Hospital, Caritas Medical Centre, United Christian Hospital, and the Cheshire Home. A Wide Range of Research Activities Starting from zero, in 10 years the faculty has received over HK$170 million from private donations and competitive research grants to finance research and improve clinical services. Documented in the University's Research Projects Summary 1990-91 are 320 medical research projects ranging from elegant solutions for practical problems to state-of-the-art techniques in biomedical sciences: assisted human reproduction, bone marrow transplant, male fertility control, sodium transport, biochemistry of cancer, neuroanatomy and neurophyiology, intensive care, chromosomal deletions in nasopharyngeal carcinoma, association of Epstein-Barr virus in cancer, epidemiology of psychiatric illnesses in Hong Kong, geographical mapping of cancers, IgA nephropathy, nutrition in the elderly, control of hospital infection, bacterial drug sensitivity including tuberculosis, cancer of the liver, liver transplant, skin transplant, microsurgery, new advances in ear operations (the Hong Kong Flap), ophthalmic pathology, and the formation of a drug and poisons information centre. In 1987 aCancer Research Group was formed within the faculty to foster and promote activities related to cancer research and treatment. It hosted two regional symposia: 'Recent Advances In Liver Cancer' in 1988 and 'Recent Advances in Cancer 1989 ，. In 1989 it entered into an exchange agreement with the Tumor Hospital and Cancer Research Institute o f the Zhongshan Medical Sciences University. In 1990 the University formally approved the formation of the Hong Kong Cancer Institute to replace the Cancer Research Group, and we are looking forward to the building of the first cancer centre in Hong Kong at the Prince of Wales Hospital in the near future. The new centre w ill become the focus of activities related to specialized care for cancer patients and cancer research. Ma jor Achievements In enumerating the achievements of the faculty, we should count as most important the establishment and maintenance of a rigorous medical education programme, the participation of our teaching staff in examinations of the various Royal Colleges —Medicine, Surgery and other specialities, the establishment of a comprehensive specialist service at the Prince of Wales Hospital and the L i Ka Shing Specialist Clinic, the provision of postgraduate professional training and A cancerous liver afte r m icrow ave dissection. Some breakthroughs in medical research by faculty members 4-