PolyU’s leadership welcomed The University of Waterloo (UW) delegation led by UW President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Vivek Goel in February 2023. Together they toured the clinical facilities of the Centre for Eye and Vision Research (CEVR) at the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park and exchanged ideas on research collaboration.

Jointly set up by PolyU and UW in 2022, CEVR is one of the three world-class research centres developed by PolyU in partnership with world-leading institutions under the Hong Kong Government’s InnoHK Clusters initiative, which aims to develop the city into a hub for international research collaboration.

Also the world’s first international hub for vision science, it has the mission of generating technologies for preventing vision loss in the ageing population and preserving healthy vision through five key areas of research excellence – myopia and eye growth, ocular drug discovery and delivery, vision enhancement, tear film and ocular surface, and advanced optometric technology.

This collaboration connects two state-of-the-art facilities and exceptional researchers with a shared goal (of improving the vision health of patients around the world) ~ Professor Vivek Goel, President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Waterloo