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The Division of Life Science at HKUST offers rigorous and competitive undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Currently, we have over 600 undergraduate students and over 200 postgraduate students.

The Division has 35 full-time faculty members with significant expertise in the areas of neuroscience, structural biology, cell & developmental biology, and biotechnology. The Division is the home of the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, one of the two at HKUST and one of the sixteen in Hong Kong. In addition, the Division has a large collection of the state-of-the-art major equipment and is a major stakeholder of the Biosciences Central Research Facility (BioCRF).

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January 12, 2026 News

HKUST researchers have developed CRACI to pinpoint dihydrouridine, an abundant RNA modification

A team led by Prof. ZHANG Li‑Sheng (Division of Life Science & Department of Chemistry, HKUST) has developed Chemical Reduction Assisted Cytosine Incorporation sequencing (CRACI) — a sensitive method that quantitatively pinpoints dihydrouridine (D),  the most abundant tRNA modification at the single-base resolution. Small chemical marks on RNA—like D—can work like...

January 12, 2026 News

Professor ZHAI Yuanliang receives 2025/26 RGC CRF Collaborative Research Project Grant

Prof. ZHAI Yuanliang,  Associate Professor in the Division of Life Science (LIFS), has been awarded the Collaborative Research Project Grant (CRPG) under the Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) 2025/26. He was awarded HKD7.96 million for the project "Molecular Mechanisms of Replisome Coupling" in collaboration with The University of Hong Kong (HKU).

November 9, 2025 News

HKUST Team Develops a Novel Vesicle-Based Method Advancing Membrane Protein Research

 Membrane proteins are crucial for numerous biological processes and serve as important drug targets. For decades, scientists have relied on detergents to extract membrane proteins from cell membranes for structural studies. While detergent-based approaches have significantly advanced our understanding of membrane protein structures, they present certain limitations, such...

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