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Achievements and awards A total of 17 Academic staff members of the Faculty were awarded Long Service Awards by HKU in June 2018 in recognition of their loyal service: Professor Chan Ying-shing （陳應城） , Associate Dean (Development and Infrastructure) and Dexter H C Man Family Professor in Medical Science of the School of Biomedical Sciences, who has served HKU for 40 years; Dr Chan Siu-yuen （陳小圓） , Associate Professor of the Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine; Professor Eric Chen Yu-Hai （陳友凱） , Chair Professor of the Department of Psychiatry; Professor Kenneth Cheung Man-chee （張文 智） , Chair Professor of the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology and Jessie Ho Professor in Spine Surgery; Professor Lam Tai-pong （林大邦） , Clinical Professor of the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care; Dr Stephen Shiu Yuen-wing （邵源永） , Associate Professor of the School of Biomedical Sciences; Dr Wong Nai-sum （黃乃琛） , Associate Professor of the School of Biomedical Sciences; and Dr Samson Wong Sai-yin （黃世賢） , Assistant Professor of the Department of Microbiology, who have served HKU for 25 years. Dr Karen Chan Kar-loen （陳嘉倫） , Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Dr Chen Jianping （陳建萍） , Associate Professor of the School of Chinese Medicine; Dr Feng Yibin （馮奕斌） , Associate Director (Education) of the School of Chinese Medicine; Dr Richard Kao Yi-tsun （高一村） , Associate Professor of the Department of Microbiology; Dr Victor Leung Yu-leong （梁宇亮） , Assistant Professor of the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology; Dr Judith Mak Choi-wo （麥翠和） , Principal Lecturer of the Department of Medicine; Dr Kevin Ng Tak-pan （吳德斌） , Research Assistant Professor of the Department of Surgery; Professor Xu Aimin （徐愛民） , Director of the State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Chair Professor of Metabolic Medicine of the Department of Medicine; and Professor Zhou Zhongjun （周中軍） , Professor of the School of Biomedical Sciences, who have served HKU for 15 years. The following Faculty staff were awarded the State Science and Technology Progress Award - Special Class Award in the field of Influenza A (H7N9) research by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China in December 2017: Professor Guan Yi （管軼） , Daniel C K Yu Professor in Virology and Chair Professor of Emerging Viral Diseases; Dr Maria Zhu Huachen （朱華晨） , Associate Professor of the School of Public Health and Dr Tommy Lam Tsan-yuk （林讚育） , Assistant Professor of the School of Public Health. The following Faculty members received outstanding awards from the University Research Committee, HKU in March 2018: • Professor Benjamin John Cowling （高本恩） , Professor and Division Head of Epidemiology and Biostatistics of the School of Public Health and Professor Leo Poon Lit-man （潘烈文） , Professor and Division Head of Public Health Laboratory Sciences of the School of Public Health were awarded Outstanding Research Award. • Dr Walter Seto Wai-kay （司徒偉基） , Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Medicine and Dr Carmen Wong Chak-lui （黃澤蕾） , Assistant Professor of Department of Pathology were awarded Outstanding Young Researcher Award. • Dr Julian Alexander Tanner , Associate Professor of the School of Biomedical Sciences, was awarded the Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award. • Dr Philip Beh Swan-lip （馬宣立） , Associate Professor of the Department of Pathology, was awarded Teaching Feedback Award (Faculty of Medicine). • Professor Danny Chan （陳振勝） , S Y and H Y Cheng Professorship in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine of the School of Biomedical Sciences; Dr Brian Chung Hon-yin （鍾侃言） , Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine; Dr Michael To Kai-tsun （杜 啟 峻） , Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology; Dr Wilson Chan Cheuk-wing （陳卓榮） and Dr Vivian Tam （譚闓勳） , Post-doctoral Fellow of the School of Biomedical Sciences, were awarded Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award (Faculty of Medicine). Professor Kwong Yok-lam （鄺沃林） , Chui Fook-Chuen Professor in Molecular Medicine of the Department of Medicine and Professor Kumana Cyrus Rustam , Emeritus Professor of the Department of Medicine were awarded Gold Medal by 46th International Exhibition at Invention Geneva (IEIG) in April 2018. Professor William Lu Weijia （呂維加） , Professor of the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology; Mr Sloan A Kulpur , PhD student of the Department of 45 Medical Faculty News