Calendar 2006–07

Department Profiles • Medicine 109 and tutorials. Course content is designed to meet the specific needs of individual programmes, which include the MB ChB programme, and programmes in nursing (first year), pharmacy (first year), traditional Chinese medicine (first year), and human biology (second and third years). Members of the department engage in research in neurobiology, developmental biology, reproductive and lower urinary tract biology, cancer, cell biology and molecular biology. In their various research pursuits they employ electron, scanning and confocal microscopy, as well as tissue culture, immunocytochemistry, molecular and cellular biology techniques, proteomics and functional MRI. Department of Biochemistry Tel.: 2609 6875 Fax.: 2603 5123 E-mail: biochemistry@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.bch.cuhk.edu.hk The department offers a full-fledged undergraduate programme dealing with the nature of biochemical molecules and the chemical basis of life. The curriculum is designed using an integrative and multidisciplinary approach. The department teaches both medical and pharmacy students as well as students majoring in biochemistry, food and nutritional science, environmental science and molecular biotechnology. Areas of research undertaken by staff include biotechnology, human genomics, bioinformatics, Chinese medicinal materials, immunology and cancer, transgenic animals, hormone action and neurochemistry. The department also offers a postgraduate programme leading to a master or doctoral degree in biochemistry. Department of Chemical Pathology Tel.: 2632 3338 Fax.: 2636 5090 E-mail: waikeilam@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.cpy.cuhk.edu.hk The department conducts lectures, tutorials and clinical demonstration classes for the following panels of the new medical curriculum: Foundation Studies, GI/Nutrition, Homeostasis, Mechanisms of Diseases and Therapeutic Approaches, and Communication Skills. Staff members also offer Special Selected Modules (SSM) in Healthcare Database Analysis, Journal Paper Analysis, and Medical Research for medical students. Postgraduate courses and research programmes are provided for MSc, MPhil, PhD and MD students. Research interests include the biology and diagnostic significance of plasma/serum nucleic acids, molecular investigation of genetic diseases and cancer, and the study of allergic and autoimmune diseases. The department has well established laboratories for research related to molecular biology, flow cytometry, chromatography, and mass spectrometry.