Medical Faculty News v25i1

Research Grants • Research grants awarded to Faculty members totalled HK$378.23 million in 2018 and HK$538.66 million in 2019. 2018 2018 2019 2019 Number of HK$ Number of HK$ Projects (Million) Projects (Million) RGC General Research Fund/Early Career Scheme 54 47.21 66 66.55 NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme 2 2.21 4 3.74 Health and Medical Research Fund 84 84.27 107* 126.73* Health and Medical Research Fund Commissioned Grants 6 32.23 11 147.29 SK Yee Medical Foundation Grants 11 6.63 5 3.49 RGC Area of Excellence 1 77.803 0^ 0^ RGC Collaborative Research Fund 3 18.78 2 10.3 RGC Theme-based Research Scheme 1 47.128 2 105.555 Innovation and Technology Fund 22 25.67 40 30.42 Others 45 36.3 33 44.58 (*Provisionally awarded) (^ No exercise was called in 2019) (As of December 2019) Postgraduate Education • The Faculty currently offers 13 taught postgraduate programmes in 2019-20. • The Faculty successfully admitted 214 Research Postgraduate (RPg) students in 2018-19. Nineteen of our new PhD students have been awarded Hong Kong PhD Fellowships by the Research Grants Council (RGC) and 10 have been awarded University Postgraduate Fellowships. • One MPhil and one PhD student won the Li Ka Shing Prize in 2019. • One PhD student received the Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student Award in 2019. • 20 and 15 RPg students gained admittance to exchange programmes (out-going) in 2018 and 2019, respectively at renowned universities overseas, including Columbia University (USA), Harvard University (USA), King’s College London (UK), Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) and University of Toronto (Canada). • 5 and 7 incoming RPg students in 2018 and 2019, respectively, including those from Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany), Newcastle University (UK) and Monash University (Australia) joined the Faculty as exchange students. (As of December 2019) 03 Medical Faculty News