State of the Faculty Address 2020

18 Knowledge Exchange and Faculty Advancement (KEFA) In September this year, the Li Ka Shing Foundation made a donation of HK$100 million in support of the establishment of the Li Ka Shing Cryogenic Electron Microscope (Cryo-EM) Facility and the Li Ka Shing Career Seeding Fund. The former will allow the most sophisticated structural biology work to be carried out at HKUMed whereas the latter is a $50,000 gift from Mr Li to each of our MBBS graduates in M20 through M23. Indeed he penned a personal note accompanying the gift to encourage our graduates, as follows: “Kindness is the art of medicine, an antidote to every patient fighting the battle to recovery. I hope you will practise it often.” In addition, during the past year, we have raised HK$256.6 million from 1,173 donors, accounting for 21.4% of the total amount raised by the entire University. We have also received cumulative matched government funding of HK$130 million in the 8 th Matching Grant Scheme, and HK$55 million in the Research Matching Grant Scheme so far. The newly renovated entrance lobby at the William MW Mong Block was dedicated and named the Cheung Chin Lan Hong Atrium. The Atrium leads into the Cheung Kung Hai Conference Centre housing our four main lecture theatres. The generous family of Mr and Mrs Cheung have honoured their parents by these eponymous landmarks at the heart of HKUMed for which we remain indebted and grateful.