PolyU awarded with 19 Projects by the Health and Medical Research Fund in 2020 Exercise
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has received the funding support of the Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF) in 2020 Exercise for 19 projects, with total amount of HK$19.26 million granted by the Health Bureau.
PolyU’s 19 awarded projects by the HMRH have demonstrated our strength in health and medical research and promotion of healthcare in the society. These awarded projects cover a wide spectrum of research areas including biomedical technology, rehabilitation sciences, nursing care and optometry and vision sciences.
In times of COVID 19, some researches address both physical and mental healthcare needs of individuals and the society for innovative solutions and better health supports. The research projects look into not only medical technology like development of e-therapy, or online therapy, in virtual reality exercise program for Type 2 Diabetes patients, but also public healthcare like telecare consultation support for improving post-acute stroke follow-up care.
Professor Christopher CHAO, Vice President (Research and Innovation) of PolyU, said, “PolyU takes pride in our researchers to create, facilitate and support medical research and healthcare promotion. Our research projects aim to promote good health and enhance medical practices for improving population health and fostering medical advancement.”
About HMRF
The Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF) was established by the Health Bureau in 2011. It aims to build research capacity and to encourage, facilitate and support health and medical research to inform health policies, improve population health, strengthen the health system, enhance healthcare practices, advance standard and quality of care, and promote clinical excellence, through the generation and application of evidence-based scientific knowledge in health and medicine. Also, the HMRF provides support for health promotion projects in addition to health and medical research, research infrastructure and research capacity building initiatives.
List of 19 supported projects
| Faculty of Applied Science and Textiles | ||
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
| Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology | Prof WONG Man Sau | Study of the effects of soy exposure in early life on bone development and gut microbiota |
| Dr POON Chui-Wa Christina | Study of the use of Chinese herbal medicine Er Zhi Wan for management of osteosarcopenia | |
| Dr WONG Wing-leung | An innovative strategy for multimodal photodynamic therapy targeting hypoxic-tumors with nuclear membrane permeable near infrared photosensitizers | |
| Faculty of Engineering | ||
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
| Department of Biomedical Engineering | Dr CHEUNG James Chung-wai | Machine learning-based dysphagia screening in elderly hostels: A pilot study |
| Faculty of Health and Social Sciences | ||
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
| Department of Health Technology and Informatics | Prof CAI Jing | Individualized prediction of acute radiation esophagitis in lung cancer patients through domain adaptation in a hybrid prospective and retrospective study |
| Dr CHENG King Yip, Kenneth | Hepatocyte-specific inactivation of APPL2 as a therapeutic strategy against hypercholesterolemia and atherosclerosis: a proof-of-concept study | |
| Dr SIU Gilman Kit-hang | Establishment of clinical workflow for rapid identification of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance from infected body fluids – Metagenomic vs targeted amplicon sequencing approach |
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| Department of Rehabilitation Sciences | Prof CHEING Gladys Lai-ying | An e-Therapist: An Interactive Immersive Virtual Reality Exercise Program for People with Type 2 Diabetes |
| Dr CHAN Wayne | Improving the assessment of physical performance in older adults with dementia | |
| Dr XU Huan | Development and validation of a new scale to measure mental eHealth literacy | |
| School of Nursing | Dr CHUNG Joyce Oi-kwan | Needs assessment to guide the development of a paediatric survivorship programme in Hong Kong to promote physical and psychological wellbeing of children after cancer treatment |
| Dr HO Ka-yan | An integrated smoking cessation and alcohol intervention among Hong Kong Chinese young people: A feasibility randomized controlled trial | |
| Dr KOR Patrick Pui-kin | Supporting family caregivers of people with dementia and identifying an effective adaptive intervention to reduce their depressive symptoms: a sequential multiple assignment randomized trial |
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| Dr WONG Arkers Kwan-ching | Improving post-acute stroke follow-up care by adopting telecare consultations in a nurse-led clinic during COVID-19 and beyond: A hybrid type 2 implementation-effectiveness randomized trial | |
| Dr YEUNG Wing-fai | Self-administered acupressure for depression: a randomized controlled trial | |
| School of Optometry | Dr CHUN Ka Man | Long-term choroidal response to optical defocus in myopic young adults |
| Dr LIAN Jinxiao | How well does the prediction performance of Hong Kong Risk Algorithm for diabetic retinopathy work after first-pass effect and in comparison to the current practice ? | |
| Dr SHAN Sze Wan | Epigenetic regulation and glaucoma – the effect of DNA methylation inhibition of thrombospondin 1 on aqueous humor dynamics | |
| Faculty of Humanities | ||
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
| Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies | Dr KWONG Elaine Yee-lan | The temporal profiles of swallowing events in healthy adults: a pilot study using ultrasound imaging |
