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The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is pleased to have named its centralized laboratory building as the Run Run Shaw Science Building. The naming ceremony held on 4 July 2011 was officiated by Dr. Vincent H.C. Cheng, Chairman of the University Council, and Professor Joseph J.Y. Sung, Vice-Chancellor of CUHK. The building is named after Dr. the Honourable Run Run Shaw in recognition of his staunch support of and wise counsel to CUHK over the years. The University also thanked Mrs. Mona Shaw, Chairman of The Shaw Foundation Hong Kong Limited, for gracing the naming ceremony with her presence.

Dr. Shaw’s long association with CUHK began over four decades ago when he became a member of the Board of Trustees of United College in 1967. Since that time, the various generous donations from Dr. Shaw to the University have made possible many projects, particularly the creation of the fourth College—Shaw College—with a donation of HK$110 million in 1986, at that time the largest single private contribution to an educational institution in Hong Kong history. He also endowed a large auditorium and an academic building. Dr. Shaw and The Shaw Foundation Hong Kong Limited made a magnanimous donation of shares of Television Broadcasts Limited of about HK$100 million in value to CUHK in support of the University’s development, as well as scholarships and bursaries for the students of Shaw College in April this year.

As the CUHK comes to its Golden Jubilee Anniversary, Joseph J.Y. Sung expressed his deepest appreciation to Dr. Shaw for his unfailing support to CUHK’s development over the years, and praised Dr. Shaw for his support to education and research and for his loving care for students.

Located on a hillside on the central campus of CUHK, the Run Run Shaw Science Building is housing over 70 world-class laboratories for the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Medicine, including their School of Life Sciences and School of Biomedical Sciences. It is the first building in Hong Kong with an original design that caters for scientific experimental needs in a manner that complies with the strictest international standards. Now a landmark of the University, the building has boosted the University’s research strengths by providing state-of-the-art laboratories and facilities for various scientific research areas, including green catalysis, nanomaterials, transgenic cells, medicinal chemistry, plant science, blood pressure, diabetic embryopathy and prostate cancer.

The CUHK continue to strive for academic and research excellence, to further contribute to the betterment of mankind with the supports of donors and friends in the future.