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by LIFS EditorDecember 14, 2018 News0 comments

Life science alumni workshop: discovering algae under a microscope” on alumni reunion day

HKUST has organized a large-scale alumni event, namely the alumni reunion day, on November 24, 2018.

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by LIFS EditorDecember 12, 2018 News0 comments

Two LIFS distinguished scholars receiving Croucher Innovation Awards and Senior Research Fellowship

Our LIFS faculties won two of the seven awards presented by the Croucher Foundation this year. They are Dr. NGUYEN Tuan Anh, Assistant Professor of the Division of Life Science, who received the Croucher Innovation Awards 2018, and Prof. WEN Zilong, Professor of Division of Life Science, who received the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship 2019.

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by LIFS EditorDecember 5, 2018 News0 comments

Campus visit of the D. H. Chen Foundation

This campus visit brought closer together The D. H. Chen Foundation and LIFS. The event, new to LIFS’ calendar, provided an opportunity for LIFS to showcase the achievements of our students and staff as well as our research and teaching environment.

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by LIFS EditorDecember 4, 2018 News0 comments

School of Science Teaching, Research and Service Award 2018 recipients announced

The School Teaching, Research and Service Awards are given annually to Science faculty members at all levels and teaching track faculty for their outstanding teaching and service contributions.

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by LIFS EditorNovember 23, 2018 News0 comments

Best teaching assistant award 2017/18

The Division of Life Science is pleased to announce the recipients of the ‘Best Teaching Assistant Award 2017-18’.

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by rickieOctober 19, 2018 News0 comments

The Wang Genomic Laboratory has uncovered the first comprehensive mutational landscape of secondary glioblastoma and identified an actionable mutation for precision cancer treatment

Quanhua Mu, Yiyun Chen, Biaobin Jiang, and Yoonhee Nam from Prof. Jiguang Wang’s lab have integrated sequencing data from not only the public literature but also a number of newly collected cases by Dr. Tao Jiang’s team from Beijing Neurosurgical Institute and Beijing Tiantan Hospital, and uncovered the mutational landscape of secondary glioblastoma (sGBM) in East Asian cohort. This systematic study reveals genomic differences […]

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by rickieSeptember 9, 2018 News0 comments

Prof. Zhang’s research team made a ground-breaking discovery on postsynaptic density formation.

Dr. Menglong Zeng and Mr. Xudong Chen, a postdoctoral fellow and a Ph.D. student, from Prof. Mingjie Zhang’s lab have made a ground-breaking discovery showing phase transition-mediated formation excitatory postsynaptic density condensates revealed by biochemical reconstitution approaches. The paper was published in the Aug. 23, 2018 issue of Cell. This is a continuation of their […]

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by rickieSeptember 6, 2018 News0 comments

HKUST Receives HK$100 million Donation from Lo Kwee Seong Foundation to Advance Frontiers of Knowledge of Life Science

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) received a HK$100 million donation from Lo Kwee Seong Foundation in support of the University’s frontier research in life science.

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by rickieAugust 20, 2018 News0 comments

International Alzheimer’s Disease Conference 2018

The International Alzheimer’s Disease Conference 2018 will be held on 07-08 Sept 2018 (Fri & Sat) in Grand Hall and Function Hall, 1/F, 12W, Science Park, Hong Kong. Register now and Call for abstract!

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by rickieAugust 16, 2018 News0 comments

International Human Epigenome Consortium

26-28 Oct 2018 Annual Meeting : 26 Oct 2018 Science Days : 27-28 Oct 2018 Abstract Submission Deadline: 26 Aug 2018 Further information: http://ias.ust.hk/events/2018ihec/

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