Hong Kong’s new academy for female medical scientists aims to bridge gender gap
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“Hong Kong’s new academy for female medical scientists aims to bridge gender gap”
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“CUHK’s Women in Science and Medicine Academy hopes to attract 100 early-career female researchers from city and overseas in five years”
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— The issue of banknotes of the Hong Kong dollar is governed in the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the governmental currency board and central ban…
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— Hong Kong International Airport (IATA: HKG, ICAO: VHHH) is an international airport on the island of Chek Lap Kok in western Hong Kong. The airport is also referred to as Chek Lap Kok International Ai…
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— The Hong Kong dollar (Chinese: 港元, sign: HK$; code: HKD) is the official currency of Hong Kong. It is divided into 100 cents. Historically, it was also divided into 1000 mils. The Hong Kong Monetary A…
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“The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has launched an academy to nurture the next generation of female medical scientists, aiming to bridge a sex gap in which women make up just one-third of researchers globally”
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“At CUHK, even though women comprised half of all medical students, only one in three fellows and non-fellows were women”
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— CUHK Medical Centre (Chinese: 香港中文大學醫院) is a non-profit, private teaching hospital located on the campus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in Ma Liu Shui, Sha Tin District, New Territories…
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— The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public university in Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Established in 1963 as a federation of three colleges – Chung Chi College, New Asia College, a…
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— The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (abbreviated as CUHK–Shenzhen or CUHK–SZ) is a university in Longgang, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It was established under a partnership between the Chin…
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“That largely aligned with the sex ratio of researchers globally”
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— The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public university in Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Established in 1963 as a federation of three colleges – Chung Chi College, New Asia College, a…
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— The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (abbreviated as CUHK–Shenzhen or CUHK–SZ) is a university in Longgang, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It was established under a partnership between the Chin…
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— The Nethersole School of Nursing, also known as CUHK Nursing, is one of the five schools under the Faculty of Medicine of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). It conducts nursing research and o…
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