University Grants Committee

Career Workshop

  • Professor

    Esther Chan
  • Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, HKUMed, Hong Kong
  • Professor Esther Chandeco

Professor Chan’s research focuses on determining the safety and effectiveness of medicines, and expanding knowledge about the application of medicines using big data and innovative study designs. Professor Chan has completed several multi-centre randomised controlled trials (RCT) comparing sedative and antipsychotic drugs for the management of behavioural emergencies. Her research findings have led to the inclusion of drug dosing recommendations in the Australian Therapeutic Guidelines and the addition of olanzapine to the Hong Kong Hospital Authority Accident and Emergency drug formulary. Findings from her latest multi-centre RCT were cited in the Hong Kong Hospital Authority Accident and Emergency Clinical Guidelines 2021 to support the use of intramuscular olanzapine in the management of acute agitation.

  • Dr

    Aviva Chow
  • Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, HKUMed, Hong Kong
  • Dr Aviva Chowdeco

Dr Chow obtained his Bachelor degree of Chemical and Bioproduct Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He pursued his PhD in Pharmacy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Prior to joining the University of Hong Kong (HKU) as an Assistant Professor, he worked as a Technical Lead and Research Scientist at Jacobson Pharma Corporation Limited. He is also the Project Leader and one of the principal investigators in Advanced Biomedical Instrumentation Centre (ABIC) at the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park under the Health@InnoHK. His research interests include Crystal/Cocrystal Engineering and Nanoparticle-based Drug Delivery.