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Thrilled and honoured to receive the Professorship, I am eager to lead and inspire students in exploring and breaking new ground, expanding the frontiers of knowledge and creating new milestones.

Prof He Mingguang
Henry G. Leong Professor in Elderly Vision Health

Professor He Mingguang

Hong Kong needs more research and services for its growing aging population. As the only university in Hong Kong with an optometry school, PolyU is in a strong position to push the frontiers of research in quality eye-care services for elderly people. I hope that the Endowed Professorship can take the University forward in developing new insights and models of services for the elderly, who deserve the care and support of the whole community.
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Chairman and Founder 
Tai Hung Fai Charitable Foundation

Dr Edwin Leong

Donor

Tai Hung Fai Charitable Foundation

 

Founded in 2005, the Tai Hung Fai Charitable Foundation is committed to helping disadvantaged elderly and underprivileged children throughout Hong Kong, providing scholarships, a food bank, disease and medical research, medical support, health checks and university research.

Through the Foundation, its founder Dr Edwin Leong Siu-hung, who is chairman and founder of Tai Hung Fai Enterprise Company Limited, established the PolyU-Henry G Leong Mobile Integrative Health Centre, a vehicle that visits selected districts in Hong Kong to provide free health checks and monitoring to needy elderly people. Equipped with advanced facilities, the Centre also serves as a cross-disciplinary research and teaching and learning platform for health care professionals and students. Over the past years, the Centre has served over 3,000 elderly people, who have made more than 33,000 visits. It also offers valuable clinical placement opportunities for students of our Faculty of Health and Social Sciences through their participation in supporting the Centre’s operations.

Himself a successful entrepreneur, Dr Leong saw his own company grow from a small set-up into a diversified property company. He has supported local universities in the creation of a training programme for care workers of the elderly, in setting up professorships for research into related aspects, and in sponsoring scholarships for students in Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland.

 

Appointee

Professor He Mingguang

 

Professor Mingguang He is currently Chair Professor of Experimental Ophthalmology at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and has been conferred the title “Global STEM Scholar” under Hong Kong Government’s Global STEM Professorship Scheme. Previously he was Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology of Research at Melbourne Accelerator Programme at the University of Melbourne and Centre for Eye Research Australia, and Director of WHO Collaborating Centre for Prevention of Blindness (Australia).

Renowned globally for his expertise in vision-related clinical and epidemiological research, Professor He has led some ground-breaking studies. Noteworthy among these are the first population-based study on myopia in China, the pioneering population-based study on glaucoma in China, a clinical trial published in JAMA 2015 that demonstrates the efficacy of increased outdoor time on myopia prevention, and a prophylactic clinical trial on angle closure glaucoma published in Lancet 2019. His 500-plus published papers have attracted more than 20,000 citations, achieving a Google scholar H index 75.

Professor He has secured substantial research funding exceeding AUD10 million in Australia, including prestigious grants such as the Investigator Grants of the National Health and Medical Research Council as well as the Medical Research Future Fund for his ground-breaking research on artificial intelligence in ophthalmology.

Professor He also played pivotal roles in various ophthalmology organisations. He founded the Asia Pacific Tele-Ophthalmology Society and served as its first president. He was a founding council member of Asia Pacific Myopia Society and held the position of deputy Secretary-General for Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology.

Professor He was honoured as one of the top 100 most influential ophthalmologists on the esteemed Ophthalmologist Power List in 2023 in recognition of his demonstrating “Ten Years of Excellence and Impact in Ophthalmology”.

 

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