Fourth Distinguished Lecture in Science to Present Progress in Medical Genetics

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[evdate 1992-01-23] THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Clear Water Bay Kowloon Hong Kong Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Chio-Wei Woo, DS. MA, PhD For immediate release 23 January 1992

Fourth Distinguished Lecture in Science To Present Progress in Medical Genetics

Lasker Award-winner Professor Yuet-Wai Kan will deliver the fourth in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)'s Distinguished Lecture Series

in Science on Wednesday, 29 January 1992. Entitled "Newer Insights in the Control

of Globin Gene Expression," the lecture will summarize progress in developing treatments for thalassemia, the major genetic disease affecting Southeast Asian populations. The lecture is free and open to the public. Born in Hong Kong and holding honorary D.Sc. degrees from both CUHK and HKU, Professor Kan is now the Louis K. Diamond Professor of Hematology and Chief

of the Division of Molecular Medicine and Diagnostics (Department of Laboratory Medicine) at the University of California, San Francisco. He is also the current

Director of the Institute of Molecular Biology at HKU. Professor Kan is a member of

the US National Academy of Science and a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the

Royal College of Physicians, London. He has won numerous awards for his research' including the prestigious Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award in

1991. This lecture is part of the "Distinguished Lecture Series in Science" sponsored by HKUST's School of Science in honour of the opening of the University. The series

_+ began in October, 1991 l and will end with the seventh lecture in October 1992. The

' . featured speaker in February will be Professor Wu-Chung Hsiang of HKUST. Professor Hsiang is a distinguished mathematician, and member of both the Academia

Sinica and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Wolf Prize winner Professor Theodor Diener of the Maryland Biotechnology Institute of the University of Maryland

will speak in April. Concluding the series will be Nobel Laureate Professor Howard

Temin of the University of Wisconsin. "The best way to learn is to learn from the best," says Professor Shain-Dow 8 Kung, HKUST's Dean of Science and organiser of the lecture series. "We have invited

the very best people in their fields today. We hope to learn from them; we invite the

public to come learn with us." Direct enquiries to Adeline Man in the School of Science, telephone 356-7263.