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Why LIFS?

The Division of Life Science (LIFS) is one of Asia’s top centres for research and teaching in the biological sciences. We offer rigorous and competitive undergraduate and postgraduate programs with a community of over 500 undergraduate students and 200 postgraduate students engaged in cutting-edge research and collaboration.

 

Our Division has 35 full-time faculty members with expertise in the areas of cellular regulation and signalling, cancer biology, developmental biology, molecular and cellular neuroscience, macromolecular structure and function, biotechnology and medicinal biochemistry, etc. We have an outstanding reputation of at the leading edge of molecular and cellular neuroscience. We are the host of the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, one of the two at HKUST and one of the sixteen in Hong Kong. Also, we have an extensive collection of state-of-the-art technologies supported by the Biosciences Central Research Facility (BioCRF).

 

Our mission is to lead and promote excellence in research and education in life science and make significant contributions to biotechnological innovations at regional and international arenas. We are committed to provide students with an ideal environment for learning and developing transferable skills for challenges in modern life science.

Facts

No. 2 in Hong Kong’s and No. 14 in Asia’s Top 100 universities in Natural Sciences. According to QS Asian University Rankings 2015.
No. 15 in Asia’s Top 100 Universities in Life Sciences and Medicine. According to QS Asian University Rankings 2015.
The highest proportion of internationally excellent research work. According to Research Assessment Exercise 2014 of Hong Kong’s University Grants Committee.
The World’s Best Young Universities. According to Times Higher Education’s Young University Rankings 2018.
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Division of Life Science
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Clear Water Bay
Kowloon, Hong Kong

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(852) 2358 1552

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(852) 2358-7272 / 7339
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