Calendar 2000–01

( Tel.: 2632 2850 Fax.: 2636 0020 E-mail: paediatrics@cuhk.edu.hk The department provides a 10-week module of theoretical and bedside teaching to Year-4 medical students, which aims at introducing the basic facts and principles about health and illness in children. Topics covered include care for the newborn; the influence of the perinatal period on subsequent health, growth and development; preventive medicine; the pattern, clinical presentation, and management of common childhood diseases. Staff of the department are actively engaged in clinical and epidemiological research in those same areas, which is complemented by basic animal and molecular research. Tel.: 2609 6820 Fax.: 2603 5139 E-mail: pharmacology@cuhk.edu.hk The department teaches the basic mechanisms of drug action to second-year medical and pharmacy students, and chemotherapy to final-year pharmacy students. Its research activities have a strong medicinal chemistry focus and include the characterization of prostaglandin receptors, their second messenger systems, and the development of selective ligands; mechanisms of the action of anti- asthmatic and anti-emetic drugs; drug action on the heart using patch-clamp techniques; the roles of neuropeptides in inflammation; isolation and testing of active principles from Chinese medicinal herbs; drug metabolism and detection using monoclonal antibody assays. There are on-going projects undertaken in collaboration with bioscience departments in HKUST and in mainland China and the UK. , Tel.: 2609 6860 Fax.: 2603 5295 E-mail: pharmdept@cuhk.edu.hk The only such school in Hong Kong, the School of Pharmacy offers a degree programme that aims at providing quality, relevant, and comprehensive training in pharmacy and cultivating in students the highest sense of professional ethics so that they can apply the highest standards of professional care when serving the general public. Research activities centre around pharmaceutical sciences and pharmacy practice, and cover topics such as traditional Chinese medicine, pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, drug formulation, drug stability, medicinal chemistry, pharmacoeconomics and various therapeutics areas (e.g. infectious diseases, metabolic diseases, gastrointestinal disorders, cardiovascular diseases, paediatrics, and geriatrics).