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30 Honours and Awards Professor Chow Shew-ping （周肇平） , Emeritus Professorship, former Dean of Medicine and Honorary Consultant of the Division of Hand and Foot Surgery, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology; and Ms Maisy Ho Chiu-ha （何超 蕸 ） , Executive Director of Shun Tak Holdings Limited, were presented Honorary University Fellowships by HKU, in recognition of their contributions to the University and to the community on October 25, 2018. Professor Chow is world-renowned for his contributions to orthopaedic surgery, particularly in upper limb surgery and microsurgery, with over 150 publications on these areas. He performed the first successful microsurgical replantation of a severed thumb in Hong Kong in 1977, and his experimental repair of blood vessels of 0.15 mm diameter is still a world record. Ms Ho continues her family’s distinguished philanthropic tradition of supporting the University’s endeavours through the Shun Tak Holdings - Dr Stanley Ho Hung Sun Foundation, which sponsored the ‘Hong Kong Summit of Global Health Leaders’ in 2017, one of the key events of the HKUMed’s 130th anniversary celebrations. Professor Sydney Tang Chi-wai （鄧智偉） , Chair of Renal Medicine and Yu Professorship in Nephrology, Department of Medicine was awarded Croucher Senior Medical Research Fellowship 2019 on December 7, 2018. Professor Tang’s research focuses on understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms of chronic progressive kidney disease that universally heralds the development of end-stage kidney failure. He is the only medical research recipient in 2019. Congratulations to Professor Chow Shew-ping and Ms Maisy Ho on receiving HKU Honorary University Fellowships Professor Sydney Tang is Recipient of Croucher Senior Medical Research Fellowship 2019