National • Professor Kenneth Cheung Man-chee (Orthopaedics and Traumatology, SClinMed) and his team ( 香港大學 深圳醫院香港大學張文智院士 脊柱性病變治療團隊) received RMB15M for the Sanming Project of Medicine in Shenzhen ‘Team of Excellence in Spinal Deformities and Spinal Degeneration Diseases’ in 2022. Local • The following Faculty members have been granted a total of HK$31.46M from the Collaborative Research Fund 2022/23 by Research Grants Council: – Dr Chu Hin (Microbiology, SClinMed) Project: Dissecting the pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron and emerging variants (HK$6.11M) – Dr Jeff Ti Shih-chieh (Biomedical Sciences) Project: Integrative genome editing and protein engineering approaches to investigate the single-molecule dynamics and structures of microtubules in neuronal development and diseases (HK$8.46M) – Dr Carmen Wong Chak-lui (Pathology, SClinMed) Project: The immune microenvironment of recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma (HK$7.2M) – Dr Alan Wong Siu-lun (Biomedical Sciences) Project: Development of therapeutic CRISPR-Cas enzymes for gene therapy (HK$4.69M) – Dr Yu Cheng-han (Biomedical Sciences) Project: Establishment of light-sheet based microscopy systems for multidisciplinary biomedical research (HK$5M) Major Research Support 51
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