The Faculty Awards for Outstanding Achievement & Outstanding Alumni Award Presentation Ceremony 2024 was held on December 20, 2024. This event celebrated the exceptional efforts in teaching, research, scholarly activities, and knowledge transfer by our esteemed faculty members, while also recognizing the professional excellence and scholarly contributions of our accomplished alumni.   Congratulations to the awardees of the Faculty Awards for

20 Dec 2024

We are excited to announce that Dr. So Chau-ming has been honored with the Asian Core Programme Lectureship Award at the 17th International Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia (ICCEOCA-17), which took place from November 29 to December 2, 2024. This award recognizes Dr. So's exceptional contributions to the field of organic chemistry and his commitment to advancing research and collaboration in Asia. Congratulations to Dr. So Cha

17 Dec 2024

We want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who attended and helped create a joyous atmosphere. Your presence truly made the celebration special, and we appreciate your support. A special thank you goes to the Lim Peng Suan Charitable Trust, our generous donor. Their unwavering support has been instrumental in advancing our department's development initiatives, and we are sincerely grateful for their continued contributions. We would al

11 Dec 2024

We are thrilled to announce that Prof. Thomas Yun-chung LEUNG and his research team, including Alisa SW Shum (CUHK), Leo MY Lee (PolyU), Yu Huang (CUHK), Vicky MK Ho (PolyU), Paull YH So (PolyU), Alan SL Leung (PolyU), Juon-kiu Lee (CUHK), Xiuhua Zheng (CUHK), and Zhiqiang Lin (CUHK) have been awarded the Best Poster Award in Advanced Medical Research at the Health Research Symposium 2024. The Health Research Symposium, organised by the Health B

3 Dec 2024

At the HKLSS Hong Kong Life Sciences Scholarship Awards 2024/25 Presentation Ceremony, held on 12 October 2024, He Jingyun, a student who is major in Applied Biology with Biotechnology (ABB), was one of the nine deserving awardees from different universities. Jingyun made history by becoming the first PolyU student to receive the scholarship.   Each awardee, including Jingyun, was presented with a scholarship of HKD 50,000 and granted exclusive

20 Nov 2024

Miss Wing Hei LEUNG, a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Terence LEE, has been recognized with the Best Presentation Award at the 2nd PolyU Research Student Conference (PRSC 2024). Her presentation entitled "Therapeutic efficacy of Glypican-3 peptide-link Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-Macrophage in HCC," introduces an innovative cell therapy approach for treating HCC. Previously, in June of this year, she received a Travel Award at The

19 Nov 2024

We are thrilled to announce that Dr Ma Cong’s RPg student Zhang Zeqi won a gold medal in the international Kaggle's AI competition. This achievement highlights the exceptional talent and dedication of our students in leveraging AI to solve cutting-edge drug discovery-related challenges.   The competition is part of the Competition Track jointly organized by Kaggle, the world's largest data science competition platform, and NeurIPS 2023, a top com

6 Nov 2024

A team of students from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has won a gold medal and been listed among the top 10 undergraduate teams at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) 2024 Grand Jamboree held in Paris. They also received dual nominations for Best Oncology Project and Best New Composite Part. Centred on the development of a novel dual-targeting nanobody to address gemcitabine resistance in pancreatic cancer patie

28 Oct 2024

We are delighted to share the remarkable news that two of Dr Ma Cong’s RPg students have respectively received the Best Presentation Award and the Best Presentation Runner-up at the 2nd PolyU Research Student Conference (PRSC 2024).   Aiming at promoting innovative and high-quality research, PRSC is the flagship research student conference, providing Research Postgraduate (RPg) students and the students of College of Undergraduate Researchers an

25 Oct 2024

Twelve PolyU ABCT staff members are ranked as the World’s Top 2% most-cited scientists 2024 by Stanford University.  Using the Scopus author profiles as of 16 September 2024, Stanford University released the latest top 2% scientists in various scientific fields. The list was prepared by Prof. John Ioannidis and his team from Stanford University, the updated database (version 7) provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-author

18 Oct 2024