Food Safety and Technology Research Centre
Food safety has been a major concern in Hong Kong and the Mainland. Reports on food poisoning and unsafe food have repeatedly made headlines in recent years, making food safety one of the top priorities locally and internationally. Addressing the importance of food safety, the HKSAR Government established the Centre for Food Safety (CFS) in 2006 under the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) with an aim to prevent food safety-related incidents through food hazard control measures and tighter laws and regulations.
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Lo Ka Chung Research Centre for Natural Anti-Cancer Drug Development
The Lo Ka Chung Research Centre for Natural Anti-Cancer Drug Development is established in late 2006. Through out the years the centre has carried out pioneering research in natural anti-cancer drugs, and has contributed directly to the community by promoting educational training. So far, the centre has developed two novel drugs to treat cancer. The second drug (BCA-PEG20), which represents a new paradigm for treating many cancer types, has been awarded the Prize of the State of Geneva and Gold Medal with Jury’s Commendation at the 37th International Exhibition of Inventions, New Techniques and Products of Geneva in 2009. We have formulated the drug with state-of-the-art DNA technology and protein modification and significantly prolonged its half-life for therapeutic use. The use of this new drug will open up many new opportunities for treating different types of cancers.
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State Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine and Molecular Pharmacology (Incubation)
The State Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine and Molecular Pharmacology (Incubation), Shenzhen (SKL Incubation) under The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Shenzhen Research Institute is a laboratory that focuses on modernized Chinese medicine research. SKL Incubation is located at the Shenzhen Hi-tech Industrial Park with an area of 2,000m2. There are various functional laboratories for the pre-clinical studies of drugs or health food, such as the Specific Pathogen Free (SPF) Animal Laboratory, Pharmacology Laboratory, Tissue Culture Laboratory, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory and NMR Laboratory. These laboratories are equipped with state-of-the-art equipment.
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State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
The Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has a long history of interdisciplinary research in chemistry and biology. From 2001 to 2009, with the strong support of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, the Institute of Molecular Technology for Drug Discovery and Synthesis was established. At the end of 2010, the Partner State Key Laboratory of Chirosciences was approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) to be established in PolyU as a partner laboratory of the State Key Laboratory of Bio-organic and Natural Products Chemistry in the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In mid-2011, the Partner State Key Laboratory of Chirosciences started to operate. In 2018, upon approval by MOST, the Partner State Key Laboratory of Chirosciences was renamed as the State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery.
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Henry Cheng Research Laboratory for Drug Development
Located on the seventh floor of the Lee Shau Kee Building on the PolyU campus, the "Henry Cheng Research Laboratory for Drug Development" has a total floor area of 537 square metres. The Laboratory provides state-of-the-art equipment including flow cytometer, confocal microscopy, thermos fisher scientific system and a high-performance liquid chromatography machine, which serves as a technology platform for an excellent research team of chemistry and biology experts to work together towards the common goal of developing new drugs for the benefit of mankind.
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