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News and Events Seminars Past Year Year 2008
| Title | Pharmacy's Contribution to The Research University |
| Speaker | Dr. Jordan L Cohen Interim Vice President for Research, and Dean Emeritus, College of Pharmacy University of Iowa |
| Date | Thursday, Nov 27, 2008 |
| Time | 4:30pm - 5:30pm |
| Venue | Ching Kai Hall, Choh-ming Li Basic Medical Sciences Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Target Audience | All are welcome |
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| Title | R & D integrated drug delivery technologies optimize pipelines: drug repositioning and enhancement broadens |
| Speaker | Dr. Hovhannes Gukasyan Principle Scientist Pfizer Global R & D San Diego, CA |
| Date | Monday, Sep 22, 2008 |
| Time | 4:30pm - 5:30pm |
| Venue | Rm 628, Pharmacy Conference Room, Choh-Ming Li Basic Medical Sciences Building, Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
| Target Audience | All are welcome |
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| Title | Studies on Chinese and other Far Eastern natural substances used for treating cancer and neurodegenerative disease |
| Speaker | Prof. Peter Houghton Professor in Pharmacognosy Department of Pharmacy, King's College London |
| Date | Wednesday, July 30 , 2008 |
| Time | 11:00am - 12:15pm |
| Venue | Lecture Theatre 5, 2/F, Science Centre (South Block), Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Target Audience | All are welcome |
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| Title | Dietary Supplements in Community Pharmacy Practice in Hong Kong |
| Speaker | Mr. Godfrey Lui Practising Community Pharmacist |
| Date | Thursday, July 3, 2008 |
| Time | 9:30am - 10:30am |
| Venue | Rm 628, Conference Room, School of Pharmacy, Choh-Ming Li Basic Medical Sciences Building, Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Target Audience | All are welcome |
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| Title | Mechanism-based Approaches to PK and PK/PD Modeling: Assessment of Warfarin-Drug Interaction |
| Speaker | Dr. Chan Wing Yuen, Eli Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore |
| Date | Wednesday, June 18, 2008 |
| Time | 2:30-3:30pm |
| Venue | Rm 628, Conference Room, School of Pharmacy, Choh-Ming Li Basic Medical Sciences Building, Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Target Audience | All are welcome |
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| Title | Optimal Dosing Regimen Design for Antimicrobial Agents |
| Speaker | Prof. Vincent H. Tam, Pharm. D. BCPS (Infectious Diseases) University of Houston College of Pharmacy Houston, TX |
| Date | Tuesday, June 10, 2008 |
| Time | 3:00 p.m. |
| Venue | Rm 628, Conference Room, School of Pharmacy, Choh-Ming Li Basic Medical Sciences Building, Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Target Audience | All are welcome |
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| Title | Novel Organic Cation Transporter PMAT: Structure, Function and Role in Drug Disposition |
| Speaker | Prof. Joanne Wang, Ph.D. Associate Professor University of Washington |
| Date | Friday, June 6, 2008 |
| Time | 4:30 p.m. |
| Venue | Rm 628, Conference Room, School of Pharmacy, Choh-Ming Li Basic Medical Sciences Building, Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Target Audience | All are welcome |
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| Title | St. John's Wort-Opioid Interactions: Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics |
| Speaker | Prof. Danny D. Shen, Ph.D. Professor and Chair University of Washington |
| Date | Monday , May 19, 2008 |
| Time | 11:00 am - 12:30pm |
| Venue | Ching Kai Hall , Choh-Ming Li Basic Medical Sciences Building, Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Target Audience | All are welcome |
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| Title | Delivery and Gene Silencing for Treating Liver Diseases |
| Speaker | Prof. Ram I. Mahato Associate Professor Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Tennessee Health Science Center |
| Date | Monday, May 5, 2008 |
| Time | 4:30pm |
| Venue | Rm 628, Pharmacy Conference Room, Choh-Ming Li Basic Medical Sciences Building, Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
| Target Audience | All are welcome |
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| Title | The Caco2 Cell Monolayer for Transport and Metabolism Studies: Usefulness and Pitfalls |
| Speaker | Prof. Sandy Pang Professor of Pharmacy and Pharmacology Faculties of Pharmacy and Medicine University of Toronto |
| Date | Wednesday, April 2, 2008 |
| Time | 4:00-5:00pm |
| Venue | Rm 628, Pharmacy Conference Room, Choh-Ming Li Basic Medical Sciences Building, Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
| Target Audience | All are welcome |
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| Title | Nanosystems: A Integrative Approach to Clinical Research |
| Speaker | Dr. Cindy H. Chau, Pharm. D., Ph.D. Research Scientist Center for Cancer Research National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD |
| Date | Thursday, April 3, 2008 |
| Time | 4:00 p.m. |
| Venue | Rm 628, Conference Room, School of Pharmacy, Choh-Ming Li Basic Medical Sciences Building |
| Target Audience | All are welcome |
| Title | Pharmacy Education: Global Metamorphosis |
| Speaker | Dr. Cindy H. Chau, Pharm. D., Ph.D. Research Scientist Center for Cancer Research National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD |
| Date | Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
| Time | 4:00 p.m. |
| Venue | Rm 628, Conference Room, School of Pharmacy, Choh-Ming Li Basic Medical Sciences Building |
| Target Audience | All are welcome |
| Title | Dissecting Hematopoietic Development Using Embryonic Stem Cells |
| Speaker | Dr. Yuan Wang, Ph.D. IRTA Fellow National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Research Triangle Park, NC. |
| Date | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 |
| Time | 2:00pm-3:00pm |
| Venue | Rm 203AB, Choh-Ming Li Basic Medical Sciences Building |
| Target Audience | All are welcome |
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| Title | Nanomedicines To Deliver Drugs Across Biological Barriers |
| Speaker | Prof. Claus-Michael Lehr Professor and Head, The Department of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology Saarland University Germany |
| Date | Monday, February 18, 2008 |
| Time | 4:30 p.m. |
| Venue | Room 628, Conference Room, School of Pharmacy, 6/F., Li Choh-mingBasic Medical Sciences Building |
| Target Audience | All are welcome |
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| Title | Gene Expression Profiling Predicts Metastatic Outcome in Human Cancers |
| Speaker | Dr. Stephanie Lee Senior Postdoctoral Scientist Radiation Oncology and Biology Department University of Oxford |
| Date | Tuesday, February 12, 2008 |
| Time | 3:00 p.m. |
| Venue | Room 628, Conference Room, School of Pharmacy, 6/F., Li Choh-mingBasic Medical Sciences Building |
| Target Audience | All are welcome |
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| Title | Liposomes: An Old Delivery System with New Applications |
| Speaker | Dr. Maggie Li Department of Biology Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Date | Monday, January 28, 2008 |
| Time | 1:00pm-2:00pm |
| Venue | Room 628, Conference Room, School of Pharmacy, 6/F., Li Choh-mingBasic Medical Sciences Building |
| Target Audience | All are welcome |
| Details | |
| Title | Curcumin for Treating Alzheimer's Disease |
| Speaker | Dr. Larry Baum Assistant Professor Department of Medicine and Therapeutics The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Date | Thursday, January 24, 2008 |
| Time | 9:30a.m.-10:30a.m. |
| Venue | Room 628, Conference Room, School of Pharmacy, 6/F., Li Choh-mingBasic Medical Sciences Building |
| Target Audience | All are welcome |
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| Title | Risk Management in Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices – The Current Trends |
| Speaker | Prof. Tony Chan Professor and Director, Risk Management Programs Center for Applied Health Sciences Virginia Tech |
| Date | Monday, January 14, 2008 |
| Time | 9:30-10:30a.m. |
| Venue | Room 628, Conference Room, School of Pharmacy, 6/F., Li Choh-mingBasic Medical Sciences Building |
| Target Audience | School members and invited guests |
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| Title | The Control of Messenger RNA Degradation in Diseases |
| Speaker | Dr. Chow Lee Associate Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Northern British Columbia |
| Date | Thursday, Jan 10, 2008 |
| Time | 9:30a.m.-10:30a.m. |
| Venue | Room 628, Conference Room, School of Pharmacy, 6/F., Li Choh-mingBasic Medical Sciences Building |
| Target Audience | All are welcome |
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| Title | Epigenetic regulation of the multidrug-resistance gene ABCG2 |
| Speaker | Dr. Kenneth To, Ph.D. National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, U.S.A. |
| Date | Wednesday, Jan 9, 2008 |
| Time | 9:30a.m.-10:30a.m. |
| Venue | Room 628, Conference Room, School of Pharmacy, 6/F., Li Choh-mingBasic Medical Sciences Building |
| Target Audience | All are welcome |
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| Title | Therapeutic Nanosystems to Mucosal Tissues |
| Speaker | Dr. Sam Lai Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (CBE), Johns Hopkins University. |
| Date | Monday, Jan 7, 2008 |
| Time | 4:30 p.m. |
| Venue | Room 628, Conference Room, School of Pharmacy, 6/F., Li Choh-mingBasic Medical Sciences Building |
| Target Audience | All are welcome |
| Details | |
| Title | Targeted delivery of liposomaldoxorubicin via anti-CD19 whole monoclonal antibody, Fab’or single chain FV fragments |
| Speaker | Dr. Wilson Cheng University of AlbertaEdmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| Date | Thursday, Dec 20, 2007 |
| Time | 3:00 p.m. –4:00 p.m. |
| Venue | Room 628, Conference Room, School of Pharmacy, 6/F., Li Choh-mingBasic Medical Sciences Building |
| Target Audience | All are welcome |
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| Title | The Early History and Evolution of Controlled Drug Delivery System (DDS) from Macroscopic to Microscopic to Nano-scale DDS |
| Speaker | Prof. Allan S. Hoffman Member, National Academy of Engineering Bioengineering Department University of Washington Seattle, Washington |
| Date | Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007 |
| Time | 4:30 p.m. |
| Venue | Ching Kai Hall, Choh-Ming Li Basic Medical Sciences Building |
| Target Audience | All are welcome |
| Details | |
| Title | PheroidTM Technology and Anti-infective Agents |
| Speaker | Prof. Abraham F. Kotze Professor School of Pharmacy North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus) & Ms. Anne F. Grobler Senior Scientist North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus) |
| Date | Tuesday, Oct 16, 2007 |
| Time | 4:30 p.m. |
| Venue | Ching Kai Hall, Choh-Ming Li Basic Medical Sciences Building |
| Target Audience | All are welcome |
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| Title | Pharmacy Education and Curriculum Reform in the University of Helsinki |
| Speaker | Dr. Nina Katajavuori, Ph.D. Pedagogical Senior Lecturer Faculty of Pharmacy University of Helsinki, Finland |
| Date | Tuesday, 11 September 2007 |
| Time | 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. |
| Venue | Ching Kai Hall, Choh-Ming Li Basic Medical Sciences Building |
| Target Audience | All are welcome |
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