Calendar 2006–07

390 Part 4 • Research Units and University Extensions Microsoft–CUHK Joint Laboratory for Human-Centric Computing and Interface Technologies Tel.: 2609 8313 Fax.: 2603 5505 E-mail: msjl@erg.cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ms-cu-jl/ The Microsoft-CUHK Joint Laboratory for Human-Centric Computing and Interface Technologies was inaugurated in May 2005. The joint laboratory draws upon the long-standing partnership between CUHK and Microsoft Research Asia to further promote research collaboration, provide leading research infrastructure, and jointly nurture talent in the frontiers of human-centric computing and interface technologies. These technologies embrace the information needs and natural communicative modalities of the human user at the centre of human-computer interaction. Strategic R&D areas in the joint laboratory include computer vision and graphics, speech and natural language processing, multimodal human-computer interaction, multimedia content retrieval, and heterogeneous wireless networks. Research Centre for Botanical Immunomodulators Tel.: 3163 4370 Fax.: 2603 5248 E-mail: icm@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/icm The Institute of Chinese Medicine (ICM) of the University has been awarded a sponsorship from the National Institutes of Health, USA, for the establishment of a collaborative Research Centre for Botanical Immunomodulators with Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), New York, to undertake advanced research on anticancer herbs. Research will be conducted to advance scientific knowledge on the safety, effectiveness, and mechanisms of the actions of anticancer botanicals. The major area of interest will be immunomodulating influences, either directly supporting the patient consumers, indirectly through a support of the already developed resistance, or both. ICM is responsible for drawing up the list of potentially anticancer herbs, acquiring quality samples, further authenticating the quality, maintaining the consistency, and extracting active components. MSKCC will work on the biological effects of the selected herbs to observe the biological standards of action on immunological modulation. The Shanghai–Hong Kong–Anson Research Foundation for CAS and CUHK in Molecular Biosciences Tel.: 2609 6793 Fax.: 2603 5123 The Shanghai–Hong Kong–Anson Research Foundation (SHARF) was formed in the year 2000 to promote collaboration in molecular bioscience research between the ChineseAcademy of Sciences in Shanghai (CAS) and the Chinese University (CUHK). An initial funding was pledged by the three founding organizations, namely CAS,