The Croucher Senior Research Fellowships scheme was first introduced in 1997. It is awarded to local academics who have excelled in scientific research work as judged by leading international scientists invited to provide confidential reviews of candidates nominated in a competitive exercise.
Read MoreProf. Angela Wu has just been awarded the ASPIRE League Partnership Seed Fund to investigate primate-specific RNA-editing using single-cell RNA-seq.
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Kai Liu, an associate professor of LIFS at HKUST, was appointed the Cheng Professorship in Science.
Read MoreProf. Karl Tsim and Prof. Andrew Miller (as a co-principal investigator) have received a grant from the Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF) to identify potential Chinese medicines against COVID-19 infection.
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Prof. Jiguang Wang elucidated the mechanism of resistance to TMZ in a subset of glioma patients and published their research in Nature Communications.
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Prof. Yusong Guo and his collaborators, Prof. Liwen Jiang at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Prof. Yan Yan at LIFS of HKUST, have discovered a novel molecular mechanism that controls the delivery of a key protein in PCP. Their findings, published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, can provide useful guidance on the development of new drugs for cancer treatment.
Read MoreLIFS is pleased to announce the winners for the School of Science Postgraduate Research Excellence Award.
Read MoreDr. Franco Kin Chung AU, currently working in Prof. Robert Qi’s lab at LIFS, is the awardee of the Research Grants Council (RGC) Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme (PDFS) 2020/21.
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A research team led by Prof. Tuan Anh NGUYEN, Assistant Professor in the Division of Life Science at HKUST, recently discovered how RNA elements in the upper stem of pri-mRNAs affect the action of Microprocessor.
Read MoreMr. Siu Chuen Simon WONG and Ms. Sau Mui CHUE have donated HK$67K to the Division of Life Science at HKUST.
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