University of Hong Kong to seek approval for new complex with facility to make human cells in treatment of multiple diseases
- Plan will allow the university’s faculty of medicine to train as many as 400 doctors a year and accommodate 10,000 staff and students
- Laboratory will cater to cell research and development to help save lives of those suffering from cancer and other terminal diseases
The plan, which will align with the first and second phases of redeveloping the nearby Queen Mary Hospital, will allow the school to train as many as 400 doctors a year and accommodate 10,000 staff and students amid a severe manpower crunch in the city’s medical sector, according to Gabriel Leung, dean of the University of Hong Kong’s faculty of medicine.
In an interview with the Post on Tuesday, Leung said in 10 years there would be a “holistic base ... for both teaching and clinical use” to further the university’s medical mission to serve the bay area region and Asia.
The new building, envisioned to consist of four blocks with 11 storeys, will span more than 17,000 square metres (182,990 sq ft) and be built on a slope of HKU’s medical campus on Sassoon Road in Pok Fu Lam.
It will be equipped with classrooms, conference halls and laboratories to support the school’s six undergraduate programmes, which now include Chinese medicine and global health and development, and postgraduate research.