Calendar 2001–02

Postgraduate Studies • Science 291 Faculty of Science Division of Biochemistry PhD Programme Fields of Specialization (A) Cancer Research 1. Mechanisms of Anticancer Drugs and Radiation Resistance 2. Biochemical Changes Induced by Cancer Promoters 3. Genes Expressed in Human Liver Cancer 4. Biochemistry of Tumour Necrosis Factor 5. Cytokines and Growth Factors in Cancer Treatment 6. Functions and Regulations of Tumour Suppressor p53 Gene 7. Mechanisms of Peroxisome Proliferator-induced Liver Cancer 8. Glucose Transporter in Cancer Cells (B) Environmental Biochemistry 1. Environmental Estrogens 2. Metallothionein Gene Regulation 3. Biomarkers (Biochemical) (C) Enzymology 1. Alcohol Metabolism 2. Enzyme Structure and Mechanism 3. Proteases in Health and Diseases (D) Food and Nutrition 1. Food Antioxidants — Purification, Identification and Application 2. Nutritional Aspects of Edible Fats and Oils 3. Nutrition Surveys and Interventions 4. Tea and Cancer 5. Chemopreventive Phytochemicals (E) Hormone Research 1. Molecular Endocrinology of Polypeptide Hormones, Steroid Hormones and Their Receptors 2. Biochemistry of Insulin-like Growth Factors 3. Structure-activity Relationships of Hormones (F) Immunology 1. Antibody Engineering 2. Cytokines and Haematopoiesis 3. Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology of Natural Products 4. Monoclonal Antibodies and Cell Surface Receptors 5. Tumour Immunology 6. DNA Vaccination (G) Inorganic Biochemistry 1. Selenium, Calcium and Other Metal Binding Proteins 2. Metal Contaminations and Metal Binding Proteins in Fishes