Prof. Lo Yuk-ming Dennis, Li Ka Shing Professor of Medicine and chairman of the Department of Chemical Pathology, has won the 2014 King Faisal International Prize for Medicine for his outstanding achievements in the research on non-invasive prenatal diagnosis. Professor Lo is the second CUHK scholar to have been awarded the prestigious award after Prof. Yang Chen-ning, Nobel laureate in physics and Distinguished Professor-at-Large of CUHK.

King Faisal International Prize was established in 1977 by the King Faisal Foundation to reward dedicated persons who have significant contributions to their respective areas of expertise, namely, service to Islam, Islamic studies, medicine, science, and Arabic literature.

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