PolyU Science students win gold medal in iGEM Competition 2024

Following last year's success in the international Genetically Engineered Machine (iGem) competition, a new student team of 10 undergraduates from the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, and 1 from Electronic Engineering with Finance, “PanoPOLY”, made a great breakthrough this year in October in Paris to win our first GOLD medal. More thrillingly, PanoPOLY was selected as the Top 10 undergraduate team alongside hundreds of global top universities, with TWO nominations for the Best Oncology Project and Best New Composite Part.

Under the guidance of the supervisory team (Prof. Terence Lee, Dr Clarence Wong, Dr Kevin Mu, Dr Chartia Cheung, Dr Waiting Wong, Dr Alan Lee and Dr Clare Yan), the innovative idea of creating a novel dual-targeting nanobody, “Panobody” was successfully proven to improve treatment in gemcitabine-resistant pancreatic cancer cells by our student team. The novelty in Panobody design, which brings a new hope to pancreatic cancer treatment, together with the interactive educational board game PANOPOLY, had highly impressed the judges and audience during Jamboree.

Congratulations again to the winning student team! We are proud of nurturing a group of young biotechnologists who are going to shine brightly in the biotechnology field in Hong Kong and worldwide by introducing more innovative solutions for humans' healthcare.

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