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HKU to set up State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases (Press Invitation)

10 Nov 2004

 

The University of Hong Kong is to announce the establishment of a state key laboratory of emerging infectious diseases at a press conference which will be held this Thursday (November 11).

This state-level laboratory is the first of its kind being set up in Hong Kong. The laboratory in HKU will research emerging diseases, such as SARS and avian influenza.

Details of the press conference as follows:
Date: November 11, 2004 (Thursday)
Time: 2:30pm
Venue: Mrs Chan Yang Foo Oi Telemedicine Centre, 2/F, William W. M. Mong Block, Faculty of Medicine, 21, Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

Professor Lap-Chee Tsui, HKU's Vice-Chancellor and Professor Lam Shui-Kam, Dean of HKU's Faculty of Medicine, Professor Yuen Kwok-Yung and Dr Guan Yi from HKU's Department of Microbiology, will officiate at the press conference.

Press tour to the state key laboratory will be arranged after the press conference. For media enquiries, please contact Miss Janet Yeung (tel: 2819 5505/9107 1676) and Miss Carmen Choy (tel: 2819 2857/ 9316 6267) of HKU's Faculty of Medicine or Miss Polo Leung (tel: 2859 2600) of HKU's External Relations Office.