Hong Kong's Research Grants Council (RGC) has recently announced the funding results of the Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) including Collaborative Research Project Grant (CRPG), Collaborative Research Equipment Grant (CREG) and Young Collaborative Research Grant (YCRG) in 2023/24 Exercise. PolyU has nine CRF Collaborative Research Project Grant (CRPG) projects and two CRF Young Collaborative Research Grant (YCRG) projects supported by RGC in this round of exercise.
Among the nine PolyU CRF CRPG projects, two of them are from BME colleagues — Professor Mo Yang, Associate Head (Research), and Dr Youhua Tan, Associate Professor and Programme Leader (MSc). Details are as follows:
- Professor Mo Yang – Proposed Tile: High-resolution single-cell multi-omics: Joint profiling of multiple types of biomolecules in the same single cell
- Dr Youhua Tan – Proposed Title: The roles of mechanically heterogeneous local niches within primary tumors in metastatic organotropism
Congratulations to Prof. Yang and Dr Tan!
About the Collaborative Research Fund (CRF)
The Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) supports multi-investigator, multi-disciplinary projects in order to encourage more research groups to engage in creative and high-quality cross-disciplinary / cross-institutional projects.