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<br><br><br><div id="slide"><h3 class="title">Will It Work?</h3><p id="yo">So, will our project be realistically applicable? With this in mind, we have met two well-known individuals in Hong Kong society. Professor Albert Yu and Professor Juliana Chan helped us to understand our project in whole new level. As a scientist and an entrepreneur, Professor Yu identified the issues that we need to consider if we want to see our project used as a biotechnology product. Professor Chan, a medical doctor and an expert in diabetes, enlightened us more about diabetes and the possible application of our project to fight diabetes and obesity. </p>
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<div id="int-desc"><p id="int-desc-text" class="ya"><i>Professor, Division of Life  Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology</i></p><p id="int-desc-text" class="ya">King L. Chow, Professor of Life Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, earned his PhD in Cell Biology from the Baylor College of Medicine. After spending some years as a Belfer Fellow in the Molecular Genetics Department at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he returned to Hong Kong to assume an Assistant Professorship at HKUST. Dr. Chow now concurrently holds the positions of Professor of Life Science, Associate Director of the Bioengineering Program, Director of the Molecular Biomedical Sciences Program and Associate Dean of Students. Dr. Chow’s research work spans a broad spectrum of biological sciences including molecular genetics, genomics, neural developmental biology, the evolution of behavior and synthetic biology.</p></div>
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<div id="int-desc"><p id="int-desc-text" class="ya">Professor Albert Yu is the chairman of the Hong Kong Biotechnology Organization (HK BIO), and also a professor of the Department of Neurobiology in Pecking University, China. As an entrepreneur and a scientist, Professor Yu gave us realistic insight of our project. Meeting Professor Albert Yu helped us to evaluate our project beyond the laboratory environment and to think about the possible future application as a biotechnology product. Towards the end of the interview, we have also talked about the bio-ethics and bio-safety issues regarding synthetic biology. </p></div>
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<div id="presentation"><h3>Interview with Professor Juliana Chan</h3><div id="pre-img"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2013/d/d2/Chan1.jpg" style="padding-left:10px;width:90%;margin-top:10px;"><center><a href="https://2013.igem.org/Team:Hong_Kong_HKUST/hp/interview/chan"><img src="http://w1ggroup.com/devere/img/more_off.png" style="width:40%;height:40px;padding-top:10px;border-radius:10px;margin-bottom:10px;"></center></a></div><div id="pre-desc"><p id="pre-desc-text" class="ya">Professor Juliana Chan is a professor of medicine and therapeutics in Chinese University Hong Kong (CUHK). She is also the director of Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, CUHK; co-director of CUHK-Prince of Wales Hospital International Diabetes Federation Centre of Education; and chief executive officer of Asia Diabetes Foundation. With rich knowledge on diabetes, obesity and clinical practice, Professor Chan gave us practical insights of our project in  the medical field. Meeting Professor Chan helped us to understand more about the biochemistry of diabetes. Also, she guided us to think more about the applications of our products by giving us information of the current treatment of obesity and diabetes. Towards the end of the interview, we have also talked about the regulations of new treatment in medical fields. </p></div></div>
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<div id="int1-desc"><p>Introducing you our instructors who helped us a lot during our project!</p></div></div></center>
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<div class="slide"><h3 class="title">Aftermath</h3><p id="yo">During both interviews, gene therapy and cell engineering were mentioned as technical application for our project. After the interviews, we decided to research more on these two methods in more detail. Altogether, these interviews pointed at topics that we need research and understand more for the safe application of our project.</p>
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<div id="presentation"><h3 style="text-align:right;padding-right:10px;">Dr. Jessica Ce Mun Tang</h3><div id="pre-img"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/9/91/HKUST_Jessica.jpg" style="padding-left:10px;width:90%;margin-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;"><center><a href="https://2013.igem.org/Team:Hong_Kong_HKUST/hp/interview/chan"></center></a></div><div id="pre-desc"><p id="pre-desc-text" class="ya"></p></div></div>
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<h3 class="title">Special Thanks!</h3><p id="yo">Special thanks to Miss Willa Yau, Miss Elaine Li, and Kenneth Zhou for making the interviews possible.</p>
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Dr. King Lau CHOW

Professor, Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

King L. Chow, Professor of Life Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, earned his PhD in Cell Biology from the Baylor College of Medicine. After spending some years as a Belfer Fellow in the Molecular Genetics Department at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he returned to Hong Kong to assume an Assistant Professorship at HKUST. Dr. Chow now concurrently holds the positions of Professor of Life Science, Associate Director of the Bioengineering Program, Director of the Molecular Biomedical Sciences Program and Associate Dean of Students. Dr. Chow’s research work spans a broad spectrum of biological sciences including molecular genetics, genomics, neural developmental biology, the evolution of behavior and synthetic biology.

Instructors

Introducing you our instructors who helped us a lot during our project!

Dr. Jessica Ce Mun Tang