HKUMED-sofa-23-E

• The following research teams received a total of HK$48.11M from the Health Bureau, HKSAR Government: – Dr Dennis Ip Kai-ming (Public Health) Project: A real-time community surveillance initiative for SARS-CoV-2 infection using lateral flow rapid test in Hong Kong (HK$27.12M) – Dr Quan Jianchao (Public Health) Project: Evaluation of the Hong Kong Genome Project (HK$12.49M) – Dr Quan Jianchao (Public Health) Project: Evaluation of the Breast Cancer Screening Pilot Programme (HK$8.5M) • Professor Simon Law Ying-kit (Surgery, SClinMed) was awarded HK$8.446M by the Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) Midstream Research Programme for the project ‘Using machine learning to develop a prediction model as companion diagnostic to guide the use of chemoradiation in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients’ in 2022. 52

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