Prof. Kam-bo WONG: CUHK School of Life Sciences Signs Agreement with UC Berkeley on Biosciences Study Abroad Programme
27 September 2016
The School of Life Sciences (SLS) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong has entered into a five-year agreement with the University of California at Berkeley’s (UC Berkeley) Departments of Integrative Biology and Molecular & Cell Biology, under which up to five students from CUHK will be sent to enroll in the ‘Berkeley Biosciences Study Abroad (BBSA) Programme’ for a semester every year. The students will also get internship opportunities at the research laboratories of the two departments of UC Berkeley. As an initiative to encourage students to pursue their aspirations in scientific research, the units obtained by the participating students from the BBSA Programme will be recognized as their respective major programme requirements back in CUHK, and the University will also subsidise the students with the tuition fees at UC Berkeley.
Today, Prof. Randy Wayne SCHEKMAN, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley and 2013 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, visited CUHK to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Prof. Kam-bo WONG (Dean of Students, S.H. Ho College), Director of SLS at CUHK. Professor Schekman has been in close collaboration with Prof. Liwen JIANG of SLS on research projects about cell proteins under the Area of Excellence (AoE) Scheme, as well as on education and student training.
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