We hosted the ″CUHK – Osaka University Symposium in Ophthalmic Research″, 10^th – 13^thAugust 2017, and welcomed Prof Kohji NISHIDA, Prof Motokazu TSUJIKAWA, Dr Kazuichi MARUYAMA, Dr Shizuka KOH, Dr Shigeru SATO and Dr Atsuya MIKI from Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medicine, and Osaka University. They visited the new clinical and research facilities at our CUHK Eye Centre and the CUHK Ophthalmic Research Centre. In the symposium, we updated our research programmes and discussed in details our collaborative research projects in ophthalmic genetics, keratoconus, retinal diseases and glaucoma. Prof Vishal JHANJI (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Prof CHAN Sun On (Assistant Dean of Education, Faculty of Medicine, CUHK), Dr Poeman PM CHAN (Associate Consultant, Hong Kong Eye Hospital), also participated in the symposium with our faculty members and students.

We are much delighted to strengthen our academic network and friendship with the Osaka University.