Five STEM Labs established to pave way for breakthrough discoveries
CUHK has received generous support of HK$49.7 million (US$6.3 million) from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust to establish five Jockey Club (JC) STEM Labs. Each Lab focuses on a unique research area and is set to deliver impactful discoveries and innovative outcomes that will not only increase Hong Kong’s competitiveness in the long run, but also emerge as global breakthroughs that will bring heightened social benefits for the community at large.
The five newly inaugurated labs are:
- The JC STEM Lab of Intelligent Design Automation, led by Prof. Tsung Yi Ho from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, aspires to make CUHK an iconic centre for next-generation technologies and applications in electronic design automation.
- The JC STEM Lab of Astronomical Instrumentation, led by Prof. Renbin Yan from the Department of Physics, is dedicated to research mapping the motion and distribution of gases in the Milky Way to understand humankind’s galactic home and how stars are born.
- The JC STEM Lab of Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, led by Prof. Stephen Dalton from the School of Biomedical Sciences, will specialise in the development of new drugs and novel cell therapy approaches for type 2 diabetes, to ease the pain of patients with this major health problem.
- The JC STEM Lab of Nature-inspired Precision Medical Engineering, led by Prof. Chuanbin Mao from the Department of Biomedical Engineering, will focus on transforming nature’s tools into precision medicine to combat challenging diseases such as cancer.
- The JC STEM Lab of Personalised Cancer Medicine, led by Prof. Andreas Moeller from the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, is set to deliver fruitful outcomes in translational cancer research.
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