State of the Faculty Address 2020

26 Professional Recognition & Honours/Awards (Teams) ● Professor Feng Yibin (School of Chinese Medicine) and his team were awarded Science and Technology Award (Second prize) by the China Society for the Promotion of Science and Technology Commercialization for the project “Technology to Discover New Targets and New Substances for Obesity/ Diabetes Treatment from Traditional Miao Medicine” in September 2020. ● Professor Guan Xin-yuan (Clinical Oncology) and his team were chosen for the 2019 State Scientific and Technological Progress Award of China (Second-class) for the project “Discovery and clinical application of biomarkers for gastrointestinal carcinoma”. ● Dr Hu Yong (Orthopaedics and Traumatology) and his team were chosen for the 2019 State Scientific and Technological Progress Award (Second-class) for the project “Establishment and Application of Diagnosis and Treatment System for Spinal Cord Injury based on Epidemiology and Microenvironment Theory” in January 2020. ● Drs Richard Kao Yi-tsun, Jasper Chan Fuk-woo and Yeung Man-lung (Microbiology) and their team were chosen for the 2019 State Scientific and Technological Progress Award (Second-class) for the project “Establishment and application of animal models for major human infectious diseases” in January 2020. ● Professor Wallace Lau Chak-sing (Medicine) and his team comprising Professor Gilberto Leung Ka-kit (Surgery), Dr Julie Chen Yun (Family Medicine and Primary Care), Dr George Tipoe Lim (School of Biomedical Sciences) and Dr Gordon Wong Tin-chun (Anaesthesiology) were given the HKU 2019 Teaching Innovation Award for “Re-imagining Medical Education: An Enrichment Year in the Core MBBS Curriculum” by HKU in December 2019.

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