{"id":2177,"date":"2016-08-06T15:53:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T19:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bio.purdue.edu\/lab\/leung\/blog\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2016-08-06T15:53:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T19:53:02","slug":"my-visit-to-the-school-of-optometry-of-the-hong-kong-polytechnic-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/my-visit-to-the-school-of-optometry-of-the-hong-kong-polytechnic-university\/","title":{"rendered":"My visit to the School of Optometry of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 20th 2016, I was invited by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polyu.edu.hk\/so\/index.php?lang=en&amp;pageid=447&amp;dispmode=1http:\/\/\">Dr. Chi-ho To<\/a>, Professor and Head, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polyu.edu.hk\/so\/index.php?lang=en&amp;pageid=452\">Dr. Chi-wai Do<\/a> to visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polyu.edu.hk\/so\/\">School of Optometry<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polyu.edu.hk\/web\/en\/home\/index.html\">Hong Kong Polytechnic University<\/a>. This is the leading Optometry school in Hong Kong and Asia. They have also been conducting many research programs that lead to translational products that help eye-disease patients. Their cohesive and collegial team great enhances efficiency and contributes to their success in research. During my visit, I gave a seminar on &#8220;Discover New Drugs for Retinal Degeneration by Zebrafish Research&#8221; and shared our vision on using this research platform to help patients with this great research team.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2180\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bio.purdue.edu\/lab\/leung\/blog\/?attachment_id=2180\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2180\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2180\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2180 \" title=\"Yuk Fai Leung's visit to the School of Optometry at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P1100604-cut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yuk Fai Leung with the Professors from the School of Optometry at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2179\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bio.purdue.edu\/lab\/leung\/blog\/?attachment_id=2179\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2179\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2179\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2179\" title=\"Yuk Fai Leung's visit to the School of Optometry at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC07168-cut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yuk Fai Leung shared his vision on zebrafish research.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2178\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bio.purdue.edu\/lab\/leung\/blog\/?attachment_id=2178\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2178\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2178\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2178\" title=\"Yuk Fai Leung's visit to the School of Optometry at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC07165-cut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"663\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yuk Fai Leung shared his vision on zebrafish research.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 20th 2016, I was invited by Dr. Chi-ho To, Professor and Head, and Dr. Chi-wai Do to visit the School of Optometry of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. This is the leading Optometry school in Hong Kong and Asia. They have also been conducting many research programs that lead to translational products that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[418,419],"class_list":["post-2177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faisharing","tag-hong-kong-polytechnic-university","tag-school-of-optometry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions\/2182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}