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4 Hospital to bring –omics and cell-based technologies to bear on advancing the frontiers of cancer patient care. Finally, at the HKU-Shenzhen Hospital, we will be constructing a research block of 27,000m 2 to accelerate our growth into a truly academic health science centre there. On completion, these projects together will more than double the Faculty’s net operating floor area for teaching and research, thereby restoring the per capita space norm for every student and researcher at the turn of the millennium. In the coming decade, we will be relentless in further pursuing opportunities to continue the Sassoon Road medical campus transformation mega project, from Pokfulam Road at the top to Victoria Road at the bottom. We have already begun the second-phase master campus planning process with the vision to redevelop the current site of the Estates Building and its neighbouring reservoir to rehouse and consolidate the School of Public Health’s laboratories, classrooms and offices under one roof. Across the road then, as a final step of the Sassoon Road transformation, the Patrick Manson site (including both the North and South wings) would become the new home of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, which by that time would hopefully have achieved “School” status. The School of Chinese Medicine would also be re-located to share this site with the pharmacists and pharmacologists. While the built environment is a critical input for excellence, it must take second place in relation to our people strategy. I am again most pleased to report the brilliant successes our colleagues have enjoyed in the past year. There are simply too many to recount here and now although I would refer you to the printed proceedings for a complete listing. We must not rest on our laurels, of course. Let me give an overview of how we continue to enhance human capital at the Faculty. By the numbers, since 2013, we have increased the size of our professoriate by 9%, the strength of our research staff by 12% and the number of endowed professorships by 50%. Following the overarching strategy of differentiation in the professoriate categories of the University, we have ambitiously and aggressively recruited the most brilliant minds, from heads of schools and departments to world-leading researchers. Like most of our national and international peers, many of their leaders are sitting behind me, the Faculty seeks to expand and improve our human capital stock of clinician-scientists. In parallel to intensifying recruitment externally, we are hopeful that the new Enrichment Year of our MBBS programme will inspire and initiate more students into joining our ilk. Recent support from the Li Shu Pui Medical Foundation, Croucher Foundation and the Health and Medical Research Fund Fellowship Scheme has lent a useful boost to recruiting junior clinical academics. Given the Chief Executive’s espoused goal of turning Hong Kong into an innovation and technology hub, not least with a special emphasis on biomedicine, we look to the relevant bureaux for a renewed, era-defining push. This of course goes beyond financial support. Even more importantly, we need to align non-monetary incentives amongst the Hospital Authority as the exclusive employer of virtually all trainees, the Academy Colleges whose training guidelines have become progressively more systematised but perhaps inadvertently inflexible, and mea culpa the universities which are myopically obsessed with short-term results to satisfy the alphabet soup of RAE, QAC and UAA imposed by the University Grants Committee. The value placed on nurturing clinician-scientists must be genuinely reflected in a fundamental sea change in multi-institutional attitude that is followed through to action. This is a collective test of whether transformational leadership is matched by transactional leadership to bring about real change. Once budding clinician-scientists are in post, like any good gardener the Faculty must nurture them and help them flourish. 十年樹木，百年樹人 – whereas the terms and conditions of service for clinical academics used to be superior to government doctors when I first joined the Faculty, the reverse had until recently been true. Remuneration is now on par although