Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2005

US$100,000. It is awarded to local academics who have excelled in scientific research. In recognition of their success and to encourage their further achievement in their given fields, funds w ill be awarded to the respective institution for recruiting an academic to take over the awardee's duties for the period of the fellowship. The awardee w ill then be relieved from his teaching load for six months or one year and in turn may devote more of his time and effort to research. Each awardee w ill also receive a cash award of HK$40,000. Six Students and a Teacher Granted Awards on Overseas Research Studies Two Ph.D. students, an assistant professor, and four M.Phil. students of the Chinese University were awarded scholarships by the Croucher Foundation to pursue research studies overseas. C U H K Recipients o f C ro uch e r F ellow ship/S cholarship Name CU Department/Programme Host Institution Subject Ms. Chow Shuk-nga, Lilian Anatomical and Cellular Pathology Harvard Medical School Cancer biology Ms. Leung Bo-wah Anatomy University of Oxford Virology Prof. Liu Kai-sui Information Engineering University of Bristol Computer science Miss Choy Wai-yan Molecular Biotechnology U.C. Berkeley Cell biology Mr. Lam Hiu-wai Automation and Computer- aided Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mechanical engineering Mr. Mak Sui-tung, Terence Systems Engineering and Engineering Management Imperial College London Bioinformatics Mr. Ng Ping-chung Information Engineering University of Oxford Information engineering CUHK Laboratory Named A fte r Noel Croucher The Croucher Laboratory for Human Genomics was established on 19th November 2004 in the Mong Man Wai Building on campus, bolstering the advanced study of genes at the University. The laboratory is one of seven Croucher laboratories set up at various universities in Hong Kong, and named after Noel Croucher in recognition of the foundation's support for science in the last 25 years. Over the years, the University received generous donations of over HK$80 million from the Croucher Foundation. The laboratory was founded on the achievements of the Laboratory of Human Genomics, as a result of close collaborations among a number of researchers. Scientists working in the laboratory have recently made important discoveries on the functiona l characteristics of human genes including those important to liver cancer development and the cardiovascular systems. O fficiatin g at the opening ceremony were Prof. Y.W. K an (right 2), chairm an o f the Board o f Trustees o f the CroucherFoundation, Prof. LawrenceJ. Lau (left 2), vice- chancellor o fthe University, Prof. Fok Tai-fai (right 1), dean o fthe C U H K Faculty o fMedicine, and Prof. Mary Waye (left 1), director o fthe laboratory. News in Brief 3 5