School of Biomedical Sciences
生物醫學學院
The Chinese University of Hong Kong 香港中文大學

In the Research Grants Council (RGC) - General Research Fund (GRF) and Early Career Scheme (ECS) 2020/21, 16 projects submitted by our School members were successfully funded, including two ECS project. A gross amount of about HK$17.2 million was secured. The corresponding Principal Investigators (PIs) are listed below according to the alphabetical order of surname:

Prof. Alfred Sze-lok Cheng Prof. Cheung Hoi-hung Prof. Feng Bo
Prof. Huang Yu Prof. Ip Pak-kan* Prof. Elmer D.F. Ker*
Prof. Ko Wing-hung Prof. Lee Chien-wei Prof. Lee Tin-lap
Prof. Lin Ge Prof. John A. Rudd Prof. Tsui Kwok-wing
Prof. Wang Dan Prof. Xia Yin Prof. Zhao Hui
Prof. Zhou Jingying    

(*ECS projects)

In this exercise, the number of funded projects held by our School accounted for about 30% of all the successful projects obtained by the whole Faculty of Medicine. Also, Prof. Ip Pak-kan was awarded the ECS Award in recognition of his outstanding research and education plan. With this remarkable achievement, we would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to the above Principal Investigators for their relentless efforts and full commitment to pursuing research excellence.

Further announcement made by CUHK on Prof. Jacque Ip receiving RGC Early Career Award can be viewed HERE.