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11 • Professor Keiji Fukuda (Public Health) was awarded Fellowship by Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom in June 2018. • Professors Guan Yi and Leo Poon Lit-man (Public Health) were elected Fellows of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom in June 2017. They, along with Professor Malik Peiris (Public Health) were recognized as “Highly Cited Researchers in 2017” by Clarivate Analytics in November 2017. • Dr Richard Kao Yi-chun (Microbiology) was awarded First Prize of the Innovative Academy Award by the Geneva International Conference for Prevention and Infection Control in June 2017. • Professor Cindy Lam Lo-Kuen (Family Medicine and Primary Care) was appointed as Non-official member, Steering Committee on Primary Health Care Development, Food and Health Bureau of the HKSAR Government in 2017. • Professor Cindy Lam Lo-Kuen (Family Medicine and Primary Care) was appointed as Chairman, Advisory Committee on Primary Care Directory, Department of Health of the HKSAR Government in 2017. • Professor Lao Lixing (Chinese Medicine) was elected as Vice President of the World Federation of Acupuncture-Moxibustion Societies in December 2017. • Professor Gabriel Matthew Leung (Public Health and LKS Faculty of Medicine) was elected a Member of the US National Academy of Medicine in October 2018. • Professor Gilberto Leung Ka-kit (Surgery) was elected as Fellow of the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia in 2017/8. • Professor Keith Luk Dip-kei (Orthopaedics and Traumatology) was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Hong Kong College of Orthopaedic Surgeons in May 2018. • Dr Stephanie Ma Kwai-yee (Biomedical Sciences) was awarded the Ton Duc Thang University Rising Star Award in January 2018. • Professor Man Kwan (Surgery) was elected President of the International Liver Transplantation Society in 2017. • Professor Nivritti Gajanan Patil (Surgery) was awarded the Bruce Medal by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2018/9. • Professor Malik Peiris (Public Health) was named one of the 10 “Science Stars of East Asia” by leading medical Journal Nature in June 2018. • Dr Sumana Sanyal (Public Health) was awarded Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowship 2018/9 by HKU in July 2018. • Professor Shen Jiangang (Chinese Medicine) was elected as Vice President of the Specialty Committee of Clinical Research for Ancient Classical Formulas, World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies in March 2018. • Dr Kendrick Co Shih (Ophthalmology) was awarded Travel Grant Award for the 122nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Ophthalmological Society by the Japanese Ophthalmological Society in April 2018. • Dr Kendrick Co Shih (Ophthalmology) was appointed Global Ambassador by Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society and was made an Asia Cornea Society-Santen Asia Educational Observership Grant Awardee. He and Dr Ian Wong Yat-hin (Ophthalmology) were awarded the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology Achievement Award in December 2017. • Dr Michael To Kai-tsun (Orthopaedics and Traumatology) was awarded Hong Kong Humanity Award 2018 by the Hong Kong Red Cross and Radio Television Hong Kong in October 2018. • Dr Kelvin Wang Man-ping (Nursing) was awarded Pi Iota Chapter Scholarship 2017/8 by the Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing in May 2018. • Dr Harry Wu Yi-jui (LKS Faculty of Medicine) was awarded Yu Ying-Shih Prize in Humanities Research by the Tang Prize Foundation/Academia Sinica in December 2017. • Dr Xia Zhengyuan (Anaesthesiology) was appointed President of the Chinese Society of Translational Perioperative Medicine and Research in July 2017; and received Chinese Society of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesiologists Award of Recognition in 2018. • Dr Yang Jian (Biomedical Sciences) was appointed Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK) in August 2018. • Professor Yuen Kwok-yung (Microbiology) was awarded a State Scientific and Technological Progress Award (Special class) by the State Council in December 2017; and an asteroid “41740 Yuenkwokyung” was named after him by the International Astronomical Union. • Professor Zhang Zhang-jin (Chinese Medicine) was honoured as Distinguished Scholar in the First Annual Meeting of Chinese Medicine for Brain Homeostasis Committee of the Chinese Association for Physiological Sciences in May 2018. Major Research Support • Professor Zhiwei Chen (Microbiology) won a UGC Theme- based Research Scheme project “Potentiating Host Immunity for HIV-1 Functional Cure” (HKD47.128M). • Professor Lo Chung-mau, Professor Paul Tam Kwong-hang (Surgery), Professor Yuen Kwok-yung (Microbiology), Professor Man Kwan, Dr Albert Chan Chi-yan, Dr Jimmy Chan Yu- wai (Surgery), Dr Cheung Chi-wai (Anaesthesiology), Dr Cheung Tan-to, Dr Kenneth Chok Siu-ho, Dr Tiffany Wong Cho-lam (Surgery), et al. were supported by the Sanming Project of Medicine in Shenzhen for the development of liver transplantation at The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital (RMB12M). • Dr Ava Kwong and Dr Michael Co Tiong-hong (Surgery) and their team were supported by the Sanming Project of Medicine in Shenzhen for the development of breast surgery at The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital (RMB12M). • The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust awarded HKD59.67M to the School of Public Health for the Jockey Club SMART Family-Link Project.