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• Professor Yuen Kwok-Yung (Microbiology, SClinMed) was ranked seventh internationally and first nationally in the field of Microbiology according to the Best Scientists Ranking by Research.com in 2023. • Dr Zhao Hanjun (Microbiology, SClinMed) received the 2022 Best Paper Award (First Place) for the paper ‘SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant shows less efficient replication and fusion activity when compared with Delta variant in TMPRSS2-expressed cells’ by the Emerging Microbes & Infections in March 2023. National • Professor Guan Yi (Public Health) was ranked first nationally in the field of Immunology according to the Best Scientists Ranking by Research.com in 2023. • Dr Wang Ning (Chinese Medicine) was named Qi-Huang Young Scholar by National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine in December 2022. • Professor Yiu Kai-hang (Medicine, SClinMed) was appointed as: – Social Mentor at the Southern University of Science and Technology in 2022. – Member of the Precision Medicine Branch of Cardiovascular Disease, China International Exchange and Promotive Association for Medical and Health Care in 2022. – Vice Chairman of the Advisory Expert Committee of Arrhythmia Branch of Guangdong Precision Medicine Application Society in 2023. 47

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