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by LIFS EditorJune 14, 2019 News0 comments

George K Lee Foundation Scholarships 2018/19 Winners Announced

LIFS is pleased to announce that CHEN Xudong (Zhang lab) and CHEN Yijun (Wang lab) have been selected as the recipients of the George K Lee Foundation Scholarships 2018/19.

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by LIFS EditorMay 22, 2019 News0 comments

Professor Mingjie Zhang awarded Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) grant

Professor Mingjie Zhang has just won a highly competitive three-year grant from the Human Frontiers in Science Program (HFSP) to investigate the molecular mechanism by which calcium ion determines AMPA receptor (α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid) trafficking and retention at the neuronal synapse. Prof. Mingjie Zhang and his colleagues from Japan and Germany will try to reconstitute the synaptic plasticity with a minimal set of purified postsynaptic density (PSD) proteins in vitro and manipulate the reconstituted PSD to understand the fundamental and molecular nature of synaptic plasticity.

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by LIFS EditorApril 27, 2019 News0 comments

Professor Jiguang Wang received the “School of Engineering Young Investigator (Rising Star) Research Award 2018-2019

Congratulations to Prof. Jiguang Wang on winning the “School of Engineering Young Investigator (Rising Star) Research Award 2018-2019. He received the award plaque and cash prize from the Dean of Engineering Prof Tim Cheng in the School Board meeting on 26 April, 2019.

Prof. Wang’s research has been widely recognized by the international community. His recent work has been selected as China’s top 10 research advances in life science in 2018. He has collaborated closely with physicians in mainland China, Korea and Hong Kong, translating into clinically relevant research regularly reported by high-impact journals, e.g., Cell, Nature Genetics, etc.

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by LIFS EditorJanuary 24, 2019 News0 comments

D. H. Chen Foundation Life Science Scholarship Winners 2018-19

The scholarship is established to show the Division’s appreciation to new junior LIFS students with their excellent academic performance. Recipients of the scholarship will each receive an award of HK$10,000, tenable for two years.

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by LIFS EditorJanuary 23, 2019 News0 comments

Professor Liu appointed to endowed Cheng Associate Professorship in Science

Kai LIU, PhD, an associate professor of LIFS at HKUST, was appointed the Cheng Associate Professorship in Science (鄭氏理學副教授), effective January 2019. His academic work has focused on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of axonal regeneration failure in adult mammalian central nervous system. Professor Kai Liu received his Bachelor’s degree from Peking University, and obtained [...]
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by LIFS EditorDecember 12, 2018 News0 comments

Two LIFS distinguished scholars receiving Croucher Innovation Awards and Senior Research Fellowship

Our LIFS faculties won two of the seven awards presented by the Croucher Foundation this year.  They are Dr. NGUYEN Tuan Anh, Assistant Professor of the Division of Life Science, who received the Croucher Innovation Awards 2018, and Prof. WEN Zilong, Professor of Division of Life Science, who received the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship 2019. [...]
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by LIFS EditorDecember 4, 2018 News0 comments

School of Science teaching, research and service award 2018

The School Teaching, Research and Service Awards are given annually to Science faculty members at all levels and teaching track faculty for their outstanding teaching and service contributions. Professor Yusong GUO and Professor Robert KO from Division of Life Science were selected for this year’s School Teaching Award and School Service Award, respectively. Congratulations to [...]
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by LIFS EditorNovember 23, 2018 News0 comments

Best teaching assistant award 2017-18

The Division of Life Science is pleased to announce that the following Teaching Assistants have been selected as the recipients of the ‘Best Teaching Assistant Award 2017-18’: Mr. Ho Chun LAI (J Xia’s Lab) Miss Pik Ki LAU (YS Guo’s Lab) Mr. Cheuk Yin LAI (WK Wong’s Lab) Miss Kendra Eileen LIU (K Herrup’s Lab) [...]
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