| CUHK Faculty |
UoM Faculty |
Area; Title of Research |
| 2024 Joint Research Fund |
| Prof. You (Willow) Wu, Dept. of Management |
Dr. Yajing Li, Alliance Manchester Business School |
Technology;
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Entrepreneurial Financing |
| Prof. Sylvia He, Dept. of Geography & Resource Management |
Dr. Ransford Antwi Acheampong, School of Environment, Education & Development |
Environment & Sustainability;
Mobilising Evidence & Policy Impetus to Accelerate Transport Decarbonisation Transitions |
| Prof. Christina Cheung, Dept. of Anthropology |
Dr. Michael Buckley, School of Natural Sciences |
Environment & Sustainability;
Marine Palaeoecology of Hong Kong: A Pilot Archaeological Investigation |
| Prof. So Ho, Dept. of Medicine & Therapeutics |
Prof. Hector Chinoy, School of Biological Sciences |
Innovative Biomedicine;
International Utility of Liquid Biopsy for Inflammatory Myopathy Cancer Detection |
| Prof. Jiang Xia, Dept. of Chemistry, Faculty of Science |
Dr. Robin Curtis, School of Engineering |
Innovative Biomedicine;
Therapeutic Protein Phase Separation Behaviour: Recombinant Collagens & Antibody Fragments |
| Prof. Francis Tam, Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences |
Dr. Zhonghua Zheng, School of Natural Sciences |
Environment & Sustainability;
Dynamic Earth System Modelling for Informing Regional Urban Climate Adaptations |
| 2021 Seed-corn Fund for Early Career Researchers |
| Prof. Laura Falkenberg, School of Life Sciences * |
Prof. Holly Shiels, School of Medical Sciences |
Environment & Sustainability;
Characterising Micro & Nanoplastics in Hong Kong’s Oysters |
| Prof. Elmer Ker, School of Biomedical Sciences & Institute for Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine (iTERM) * |
Prof. Sarah Cartmell, School of Natural Sciences |
Innovative Biomedicine;
Studying the Mechanical Conditioning of Tendon-like Biomaterials |
| Prof. Jyh-An Lee, Faculty of Law |
Dr. Joseph Lee, School of Social Sciences |
Technology;
Digital Platform Governance: Security, Scalability & Sustainability |
| 2020 Strategic Research Fund |
| Prof. Ting Fung Philos Chan, School of Life Sciences |
Prof. Patrick Cai, Dept. of Chemistry |
Environment & Sustainability;
Rhizobium Genome Refactoring for Climate-Smart Agriculture |
| Prof. Mee Kam Ng, Dept. of Geography & Resource Management * |
Prof. Cecilia Wong, School of Environment, Education & Development |
Environment & Sustainability;
Smart & Sustainable Planning: Towards an Integrated Spatial Approach |
| Prof. Shu Hang Patrick Yung, Dept. of Orthopaedics & Traumatology |
Dr. Leela Biant, Division of Cell Matrix Biology & Regenerative Medicine |
Translational Biomedicine;
Defining the Cellular Content of Human Hoffa Fat Pad in Health & Disease |
| 2019 Seed-corn Fund |
| Prof. Zhenguang Garry Cai, Dept. of Linguistics & Modern Languages |
Dr. Bo Yao, Division of Neuroscience & Experimental Psychology |
Neuroscience;
The Embodiment of Language Syntax in the Brain |
| Prof. Man Nin Chan, Earth System Science Programme |
Prof. Martin Gallagher, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences |
Environment & Public Health;
Quantifying our Ability to Detect Airborne Pollens in Hong Kong |
| Prof. Jiang Xia, Dept. of Chemistry |
Prof. Jian Ren Lu, School of Physics & Astronomy |
Cancer;
Cell-specific Delivery of Designed Amphiphilic Peptides for Anticancer Treatment |
| 2017 – 18 |
| Prof. Liming Bian, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering * |
Dr. Jiashen Li, School of Materials |
Advanced Materials; Cancer;
Hierarchical Metal Bisphosphonate Nanoparticles Delivery System for Bone Cancer |
| Prof. Ting Fung Chan, School of Life Sciences |
Prof. Patrick Cai, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology |
Energy & Climate Change;
Collaborative Effort to Engineer Synthetic Yeast Genome for Producing Biobutanol |
| Prof. Li Zhang, Dept. of Mechanical & Automation Engineering |
Prof. Kostas Kostarelos, Faculty of Medical & Human Sciences |
Advanced Materials; Cancer; Micro- & Nanorobotics;
Magnetic Swarming Microrobots for Image Guided Therapy |
| 2016 – 17 |
| Prof. Tsz Shun Eric Chung, Department of Mathematics |
Dr. Masoud Babaei, School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science |
Energy & Climate Change;
Multiscale Modelling of Geothermal Energy Recovery from Fractured Porous Systems |
| Prof. Yuk Fo Derrick Lai, Department of Geography and Resource Management |
Dr. Gareth Clay, School of Environment, Education and Development |
Energy & Climate Change;
Characterising ‘Blue Carbon’ Dynamics in Subtropical Mangroves |
| Prof. Wai Sang Poon, Department of Surgery * |
Dr. Zsolt Zador, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health |
Neuroscience;
Improving Outcome Predictions in Neurosurgery Using Unstructured Admission CT Data |
| 2015 – 16 |
| Prof. Yuk Lun Alexander Lau, Hong Kong Institute of Integrative Medicine; Dept. of Medicine and Therapeutics |
Dr. Goran Nenadic, School of Computer Science |
Neuroscience;
Text Mining for Integrative Medicine Research in Neurological Disorders |
| Prof. Mee Kam Ng, Dept. of Geography and Resource Management * |
Prof. Cecilia Wong, School of Environment, Education and Development |
Future Cities;
Planning for Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood Change |
| Prof. Hongfeng Yang, Earth System Science Programme |
Prof. Giulio Di Toro, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences |
Energy & Climate Change;
Seismicity Induced by Underground Injection and Extraction of Natural Gas |
