About Us > Mission & Goals
Mission
  • Promote, facilitate and achieve excellence in basic and clinical research in the areas of reproduction, development and growth and their translation to benefit the community.
  • Raise community awareness and understanding of important issues, advances in the fields and their relevance.

Goal

The CRDG aims to create the research environment conducive to the achievement of research excellence. To achieve this aim the CRDG

  • fosters multi-investigator research to enhance basic and clinical research;
  • fosters inter-Centre, inter-Faculty and inter-institutional networking and collaboration in research.
  • fosters clinician-scientist partnerships to carry out joint research and lead programmes so as to
    • bring clinical insights to basic science research ;
    • help identify, and advise on, the translation of  science into the clinic;
    • train and support a new generation of clinician-scientists to drive translation of basic science.
  • develops, organizes and exploist common research facilities readily available for researchers.
  • further develops developmental genetics and functional genomics, molecular genetics of human diseases and disorders, reproduction research
  • develops research in the area of stem cells and regenerative medicine aiming to understand the molecular determinants and factors affecting differentiation and its plasticity;  and identify and understand factors critical for the reconstitution of damaged tissues.
  • trains scientists at all levels, increase awareness on ethical, societal and legal issues relating to biomedical research and  to disseminate information on important issues in biomedicine throughout Hong Kong.