The University Grants Committee (the UGC) today (7 June 2000) announced that it has shortlisted 16 out of the 55 initial proposals received from the UGC-funded institutions under the second round of the Areas of Excellence (AoE) scheme. These shortlisted proposals, in alphabetical order of their titles, are:
| Participating Institutions |
Title of proposal |
| HKU |
Business Management in China |
| CityU*, HKUST |
Chinese Language Sciences |
| PolyU*, CityU / HKBU / CUHK / HKUST / HKU |
Chirotechnology for Chiral Drugs |
| HKUST |
Coastal and Atmospheric Research |
| CUHK |
Computer Assisted Diagnosis, Treatment and Training in Medicine |
| HKUST |
E-Commerce Driven Manufacturing and Logistics Systems |
| CUHK |
E-Commerce Technologies |
| HKU |
Genetics and Functional Genomics in Development, Degeneration and Disease |
| HKU |
HK Culture and Society : Beyond Cosmopolitanism |
| HKU |
Institute of Chemical Biology : Integrated Research on Drug Development |
| CUHK |
Marine Biotechnology |
| HKUST*, HKBU / CUHK / HKU |
Molecular Neuroscience : Basic Research and Drug Discovery |
| CUHK*, CityU / PolyU / HKUST |
Research in Chinese Medicine |
| HKU |
Water Environment Engineering |
| CityU*, CUHK / PolyU / HKU |
Wireless Communications |
| HKUST*, CUHK |
Wireless Communication Systems |
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