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128 Part 3• ResearchUnits andUniversity Extensions The University has established a number of research units jointly with external academic institutions to pool resources for the advancement of knowledge in different subject areas. They are listed below in alphabetical order. Epithelial Cell Biology Research Centre Tel.:2609 6839 Fax.:2603 5022 E-mail: ecbrc@cuhk.edu.hk Website :http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ecbrc Promoted and supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), thecentre wasestablished in 1999 as ajoint effort between The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Academy of Military Medical Sciences. It aims to promote basic research and application development in the field of epithelial cell biology in China. Thecentre encouragesinterdisciplinary collaboration and international networking with research activities emphasizing functional genomics, exocine physiology, reproductive biology, cancer biology, immunology, and Chinese medicine. Collabo rative projects sup por ted by the NSFC, th e Rockefeller Foundation, the Research Grants Council, and the Innovation and Technology Fund arecurrently being undertaken. The centre is currently collaborating with numerous institutions in Hong Kong, mainland China and overseas. Joint Centre for Intelligence Engineering Tel.:2609 8270 Fax.:2603 5558 E-mail: pcching@ee.cuhk.edu.hk Website :http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/jcie The newmillennium brings torrents of data and information via great strides in comp uter, commun ication network in g and d atabase tech nolog ies. As a consequence, we are in dire need of revolutionizing technologies that support data min ing , inf ormation access, man agemen t, pro cessin g, retrieval and visualization. Research and developmentof intelligent information technologies that serve the human user with a high degree of usability has become a critical J oint Research Units