Congratulations Awards & External Grants
Students Awards
MindSpore Pathology Diagnosis Challenge 2021 Dr. Junyi Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow in Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health (D24H), Miss Barbara Wing Yan Wong, BBMS year 3 student, Mr. Weizhong Zheng, PhD student in Dr. Joshua Ho’s lab and their team have been
Staff Awards
Election of Council Member Prof. Danny Chan has been elected as a member of the HKU Council.
awarded the Pitching Score Runner-up Award and Special Prize for Explainability in the MindSpore Pathology Diagnosis Challenge 2021.
Election of Member of The Hong Kong Academy of Sciences Prof. Kathryn Cheah has been elected as a member of The Hong Kong Academy of Sciences.
IPE International Student Challenge 2021 Miss Ji Won Seo, BBMS year 3 student, and her team won IPE International Student Challenge 2021 hosted by U21 Health Sciences Group.
Oral Presentation Winner Ms. Feng Hu, PhD student in Dr. Martin Cheung’s lab Poster Presentation Winner Mr. Man Hon Manton Leung, PhD student in Dr. Wilson Ching’s lab 26th HKUMed Research Postgraduate Symposium Congratulations to the following research postgraduate students for their fantastic presentations at the 26th HKUMed Research Postgraduate Symposium:
Food and Health Bureau - Health Research Symposium 2021 Prof. Dong-Yan Jin has been awarded the 10th Health and Medical Research Fund Anniversary Award for Breakthrough Research (Project: Roles of Epstein-Barr virus-encoded miR-BART microRNAs in viral persistence and transformation of epithelial cells), and the Best Poster Award (Project: Single-dose intranasal administration of an NSP16-deficient SARS-CoV-2 as a candidate live attenuated vaccine provide sterilizing immunity in hamsters and K18-hACE2 mice) at the Health Research Symposium 2021.
Mr. Yunong Xie, MPhil student in Dr. Man Tong's lab Ms. Huajian Yu, PhD student in Dr. Stephanie Ma’s lab
External Grants
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) / Research Grants Council (RGC) Joint Research Scheme 2021/22 A grand total of HK$2,337,093 has been awarded to Prof. Danny Chan and Dr. Cora Lai.
Top Peer Reviewers for Journal of Virology in 2021 Prof. Dong-Yan Jin has been recognized as a Top 25 peer reviewer for Journal of Virology in 2021.
Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF) 2020 Congratulations to the following awardees:
Prof. Danny Chan, Dr. Wilson Ching, Dr. Stephanie Ma, Dr. Asif Javed, Dr. Cora Lai, Dr. Chi-Pang Chan, Dr. Eric Wong, Dr. Tiffany Yuen Kwan Au, Dr. Hinson Cheung, Dr. Sin-Yee Fung, Dr. Fatin Nurizzati Mohd Jaya, and Dr. Anna Yu.
All Media Coverage
In the Media School Highlights
Nov 4, 2021 - Press Release: HKUMed scientists identify genetic risk factors for spine osteoarthritis in a milestone research
Nov 25, 2021 - Media Coverage: Dr. Joshua Ho and Dr. Jason Wong were interviewed by local media to share on HKUMed new programme BSc(Bioinformatics)
Dec 6, 2021 - Media Coverage: Dr. Stephanie Ma shared her plan after being awarded the RGC Research Fellow Scheme
Dec 20, 2021 - Press Release: HKUMed research team identifies new drug combo for liver cancer via CRISPR-Cas9 screen
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