Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2005

Research Centre for Chinese Ancient Texts Established T he Research Centre for Chinese Ancient Texts was established under the Institute of Chinese Studies on 1st April 2005. The forerunner of the centre was the Chinese Ancient Texts (CHANT) Project which was set up in 1988 to construct an electronic database of the entire corpus of traditional and excavated ancient Chinese texts and publish them via various media as valuable research tools for scholars, academia and the public. Prof. Ho Che Wah of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature has been appointed director of the centre. Graduate Students Launch Healthcare Products A group of CU graduate students have their eyes on the huge consumer market in China where both hypertension cases and health- consciousness are rapidly increasing. Their company, Golden Health, aims to manufacture and c o m m e rc ia liz e an in n o v a tiv e and inexpensive blood pressure measuring device to increase people's health awareness and improve their quality of life. The core technology was developed by a research team at CUHK's Joint Research Centre of Biomedical Engineering of the Department of Electronic Engineering. Known as 'QuickSense', the device continuously measures blood pressure electronically w ithout the need for bulky, inflated cuffs. The start-up expenses of Golden Health w ill amount to US$65,000. The company has been invited by the University's Centre for Innovation and Technology to join its incubation programme with free office space for the first year. M B A student C aro l Fan (left), P h.D . candidate Yan Yongseng (seated), A rio n Maniatis (middle), and Tony L iu (right) News in Brief 3 9