| PI | Project Title | Funding | Funding Amount | Start date | End date | |
| 1. | CHYE Mee Len | Interactions of plant acyl-CoA-binding proteins with lipids and/or protein partner | RGC GRF | HK$730,215 | 2018.11 | 2020.10 |
| 2. | HE Junxian | Mechanisms by which brassinoteroids regulate plant photomorphorgenesis through GATA and MYB transcription factors | NSFC-RGC Joint Scheme | HK$1,250,000 | 2018 | 2021 |
| 3. | JIANG Liwen | Lipid binding proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana | Germany/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme | HK$89,600 | 2018 | 2019 |
| 4. | JIANG Liwen | Molecular Mechanisms of Autophagosome-Endosome/Vacuole Fusion in Plants | RGC GRF | HK$1,138,050 | 2018 | 2020 |
| 5. | LAM Hon-Ming (NGAI Sai Ming as Co-PI) | Possible roles of a plant ribosome-associated protein on translational regulation | RGC GRF | HK$1,034,257 | 2018 | 2020 |
| 6. | LUO Haiwei | Roseobacter Genome Content Diversification in a Heterogeneous Ocean | RGC GRF | HK$848,714 | 2018 | 2020 |
| 7. | NGAI Sai Ming (Co-PI) | Good-chop, bad-chop? Defining the activities of calpain-like cysteine proteases from oral Actinomyces bacteria | RGC GRF | HK$966,838 | 2018 | 2021 |
| 8. | TSANG Suk Ying, Faye | The role of TRPC7 channels in regulating the functions and maturation of embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes | RGC GRF | HK$854,494 | 2018 | 2020 |
| 9. | WONG Kam Bo | How SH3P2 interacts with ATG8 in the autophagosome biogenesis in Arabidopsis | RGC GRF | HK$1,274,389 | 2018 | 2020 |
| 10. | WONG Wing Tak, Jack | PPARdelta activation attenuates endothelial inflammation by upregulating miR-181b | RGC ECS | HK$1,213,098 | 2018 | 2020 |
| 11. | XIA Yiji | Defining molecular and biological functions of Arabidopsis DXO, a protein that removes the non-canonical NAD cap from RNA | RGC GRF | HK$1,162,300 | 2018 | 2021 |
| 12. | ZHANG Jianhua | Molecular mechanism of sensing moisture by rice coleorhiza during germination | RGC GRF | HK$1,220,589 | 2018 | 2020 |
| 13. | ZHONG Silin | Pan-epigenome Analysis of Fruit Ripening | RGC GRF | HK$1,278,357 | 2018 | 2020 |
| 14. | CHYE Mee Len | Characterization of a fungal-inducible rice acyl-CoA-binding protein [17109917M] | RGC GRF | HK$963,344 | 2017.09 | 2020.08 |
| 15 | He Juxnian | Functional study of a new MYB-like transcription factor in secondary cell wall formation in Arabidopsis | RGC GRF | HK$ 1,072,550 | 2017 | 2019 |
| 16. | JIANG Liwen | Molecular mechanisms of FREE1 functions in Arabidopsis thaliana | RGC GRF | HK$1,384,395 | 2017 | 2019 |
| 17. | LAM Hon Ming | Characterization of soybean multidrug and toxin extrusion (MATE) transporters that regulate the accumulation of flavonoid phenolic metabolites in soybean seeds | RGC GRF | HK$1,181,200 | 2017 | 2019 |
| 18. | NGAI Sai Ming (Co-I) | Investigation of migration defects, and roles of cadherin-19 in sacral neural crest cells using a Sox10 mutant mouse model of human Hirschsprung’s disease | RGC GRF | HK$721,050 | 2017 | 2018 |
| 19. | NGAI Sai Ming (Co-I) | Characterization of soybean multidrug and toxin extrusion (MATE) transporters that regulate the accumulation of flavonoid phenolic metabolites in soybean seeds | RGC GRF | HK$1,181,200 | 2017 | 2019 |
| 20. | NGAI Sai Ming (Co-I) | MicroRNA flanking sequence: a novel target for studying microRNA arm switching? | RGC GRF | HK$651,203 | 2017 | 2019 |
| 21. | TAI Pui Kuen Amos | Effects of agricultural nitrogen emission and deposition on air quality and climate through biogeochemical and vegetation feedbacks | RGC GRF | HK$540,824 | 2017 | 2019 |
| 22. | TSANG Suk Ying | The role of TRPV1 channels in regulating the functions of embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes | RGC GRF | HK$893,792 | 2017 | 2019 |
| 23. | WONG Kam-Bo | How the C-terminal vacuolar sorting determinant (ctVSD) of plant storage proteins is recognized by sorting receptors | RGC GRF | HK$1,124,086 | 2017 | 2019 |
| 24. | WONG Wing Tak | Cardiovascular Calcium Signaling Pathway: Role in Health and Disease | NSFC/RGC | HK$250,000 | 2017 | 2018 |
| 25. | ZHANG Jianhua | Use transcriptome analysis to uncover the genetic distinction between superior and inferior rice spikelets of different grain filling efficiency | RGC GRF | HK$760,796 | 2017 | 2019 |