Abstract
RUNNING A BUSINESS SEEMS TO come naturally to natives of Hong Kong. To finance his ambition to conduct world-class chiral chemistry research, Albert S. C. Chan has set up, on behalf of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a lab that can be used for commercial as well as academic purposes. The lab is located in Shenzhen, a Chinese Special Economic Zone adjacent to Hong Kong and a mere two-hour drive from Chan's Kowloon office. No drug development laboratory in Hong Kong is as complete and well-equipped as this one, he said while proudly guiding a tour of the new lab. Chan, one of only 12 Hong Kong members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, heads the department of applied biology and chemical technology at Polytechnic University. The Shenzhen Research Institute, as the lab is known, was inaugurated in April at an event attended by the mayor of Shenzhen as well as Nobel Prize winners Ryoji Noyori ...
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