State of the Faculty Address 2020

29 — Professor Benjamin John Cowling (School of Public Health) — Professor Leung Wai-keung (Department of Medicine) — Professor Elly Ngan Sau-wai (Department of Surgery) — Professor Julian Alexander Tanner (School of Biomedical Sciences) — Dr Wang Weiping (Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy) — Dr Jack Wong Chun-ming (Department of Pathology) — Dr Alan Wong Siu-lun (School of Biomedical Sciences) — Professor Aimin Xu (Department of Medicine) — Professor Richard Yuen Man-fung (Department of Medicine) ● Dr Jasper Chan Fuk-woo (Microbiology) and Dr Michael Ni Yuxuan (School of Public Health) were chosen for the Lo Ying Shek Chi Wai Foundation Award for Young Investigator in April 2020. ● Professor Chan Ying-shing (School of Biomedical Sciences) was elected as President of Asian-Pacific Society for Neurochemistry (2020-2022); Vice-President of 39th World Congress of International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) and Co-Chair of International Scientific Program Committee (2019-2022); as well as re-appointed Editor-in- Chief, IBRO Reports, published by Elsevier (2020-2023). ● Professor Kathryn Cheah Song-eng (School of Biomedical Sciences) was appointed Senior Editor by eLife in 2019. ● Professor Cheung Chi-wai (Anaesthesiology) was elected to Fellowship of the Faculty of Pain Medicine, Australia and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists in August 2019; and conferred Fellowship (overseas) by the Academy of Medicine of Singapore in January 2020. ● Dr Chung Ho-yu (Surgery) was awarded Carlos A Pellegrini Fellowship by the American College of Surgeons in October 2019.