Medical Faculty News v25i1

With the aim of providing high quality, intensive training to select students from around the world and promoting inter-institutional collaborations in the immunology field, HKU-Pasteur Research Pole has been offering the HKU-Pasteur Immunology Course for over a decade already. A special symposium was held on December 14, 2018, to mark the milestone10th anniversary of the course and to celebrate the impact the course has had. A group of local and international scientists from the United States, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Cambodia attended the two-week course held on HKU medical campus. The year’s course focused on Quantitative Immunology, On March 1, 2019, the unveiling ceremony of Shenzhen’s Sanming Project of Medicine was held at HKU-Shenzhen Hospital (HKU-SZH). In partnership with a medical team led by Professor Michael Dixon of the University of Edinburgh, the Hospital aims to build a first-class HKU-Pasteur Immunology Course Celebrated 10th Anniversary Unveiling Ceremony of Shenzhen’s Sanming Project of Medicine highlighting topics including modern immunological approaches for deciphering cellular subsets, responses to infection, and virus replication to the microbiome. On the last day of the course, alumni from all over the world reunited at the symposium, where they updated each other of their scientific discoveries in a poster presentation and rendered career advice to participants of the current cohort. The symposium was graced by the presence of Professor Leung Suet-yi (梁雪兒) , then Associate Dean (Research) of HKUMed; and Mr Leo Kung (孔令成) , Chairman of Pasteur Foundation Asia, and with a video welcome address from Mr Alexandre Giorgini (官明遠) , Consul General of France in Hong Kong and Macau. breast cancer diagnosis and treatment centre in Shenzhen. This is the sixth medical team introduced by the Hospital under Shenzhen’s Sanming Project of Medicine following five other teams in the fields of respiratory medicine, orthopaedics, clinical tumours, reproductive medicine, hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery. Moreover, in early 2019, HKU-SZH was awarded the “Humanistic Brand Construction Hospital of the Year”and “Most Beautiful Hospital” (Top 10), respectively, by the Chinese Association for Life Care. HKU was awarded the Gold Award of “Hong Kong Smoke-free Leading Company Awards 2019” in January 2020, organised by Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health (COSH) together with Occupational Safety and Health Council and Radio 1 of Radio Television Hong Kong. As a key player in the quit smoking activities and campaigns, the School of Nursing, HKUMed has contributed and initiated various smoke cessation research studies and established two hotlines: the Nurturing Experts to Support Youngsters and Women to Stop Smoking Youth Quitline and Women Quitline, targeting youngsters aged 25 or below and women smokers, respectively. Since 2005, more than 450 secondary and university students have been successfully trained as smoking cessation peer counsellors for the Youth Quitline, while Women Quitline was set up to provide telephone counselling service specifically for women smokers in 2006. 62 Inside The Faculty