Research Highlights
Three HKUMed Scholars Acquire International Accolades
Researchers of the LKS Faculty of Medicine of HKU (HKUMed) have acquired three international accolades: 2023 William B. Coley Award from the Cancer Research Institute (CRI) for Professor Tak Mak Tak-wah, Department of Pathology, School of Clinical Medicine; Associate Member of European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) for Professor Kathryn Cheah Song-eng, School of Biomedical Sciences; and Member of the Academia Europaea for Professor Chak-sing Lau, Dean of Medicine.
More Three HKUMed Scholars Acquire International AccoladesProf Hongzhe Sun Receives RSC 2023 Dalton Horizon Prize
A team led by Professor Hongzhe Sun, Norman & Cecilia Yip Professor in Bioinorganic Chemistry and Chair Professor of Chemistry at HKU, has been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)’s 2023 Dalton Horizon Prize, for their pioneering research on the medicinal chemistry of bismuth applied to the treatment of COVID-19, and identification of target sites in SARS-CoV-2 enzymes using metallomics methods.
More Prof Hongzhe Sun Receives RSC 2023 Dalton Horizon PrizeHKU Secures Significant Funding in Major Government Research Schemes
In the Research Grants Council (RGC)'s latest funding round for large-scale projects, HKU researchers will participate in 8 of the 9 funded Theme-based Research Scheme (TRS) projects and coordinate 2 of them, and participate in the 2 projects funded under the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme.
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