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Contact us hkuscif@hkusua.hku.hk
Lighting the Way to A Cure
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Advisory
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Professor
Gong Ju |
"The establishment of the China SCI Network gives China an opportunity to make a unique contribution to the cure of spinal cord injury."
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Professor
Johan Karlberg Director Clinical Trials Centre The University of Hong Kong |
"What we've been brought in to do is to ensure the quality of the testing and that it's going to be ethical, safe and trustworthy." | ||
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Professor
John CY Leong President The Open University of Hong Kong Honorary Professor Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology The University of Hong Kong |
"Anecdotal evidence of a possible effect to use stem cells, olfactory sheath cells, and Schwann cells, to stimulate the injured spinal cord to recover, requires randomized double-blind prospective trials, with detailed documentation and assessment by experts to draw scientific conclusions." | ||
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Professor
Keith Luk Head Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology The University of Hong Kong |
"In the past, we used to think that spinal cord injuries were irreversible. Yet recent advancements in regenerative therapies have demonstrated that the injured spinal cord does have the potential for regeneration." | ||
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Mrs
Suzanne Poon Chair of the "HKU - SCI Fund" Fundraising Committee |
"The plight of my son and countless other SCI sufferers cries out for this excitingly attainable cure. I vow to contribute my every breath to this cause which will lay down a legacy for our descendants to cherish and build upon. " | ||
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Professor
Kwok-Fai So* Head Department of Anatomy The University of Hong Kong |
"Research work at HKU shows that a combination therapy of a common drug and an enzyme has successfully increased the regeneration of spinal cord nerve fibres in animals by 42 percent." | ||
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Professor
Paul KH Tam |
"It gives me great pleasure to see this University contributing to the Network, and coordinating the testing to ensure that its quality is of an international standard." | ||
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Professor Paul M Vanhoutte
The University of Hong Kong |
"I am deeply interested in conditions of extreme medical need where conventional pharmaceutical approaches bring little relief, and where there is an obvious need for imaginative new therapies. I hope to be able to contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of the patients enrolled in the programme." | ||
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Dr
Wutian Wu# Associate Professor Department of Anatomy The University of Hong Kong |
"SCI research will hopefully also help develop treatments for people who have had a stroke, Alzhelmer's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Traumatic Brain Injury, and many other diseases and conditions of the central nervous system." | ||
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Professor
Wise Young* |
"The China SCI Network will become the largest spinal cord injury clinical trial network in the world, and will move research forward at a pace previously not thought possible." | ||
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* Co-Director of "HKU - SCI Fund"
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