Funding Success

The Faculty has recently received the following four funding projects with a total amount of over HK$6.2 million.

Source of Grant	Project Title	Principal Investigator	Funded Amount (HK$)
ITF-UICP	Autologous Neural Stem Cell (NSCs) Harvest: Precision cell therapies for neurodegeneration in animal model of Parkinson's disease	Professor Yung Kin Lam, Ken	2,799,548.00
ITF-UICP	Phthalocyanine nanodots for photoacoustic imaging and photothermal therapy	Dr Zhu Xunjin	585,478.00
HMRF	Theranostics bioprobes for EBV-associated cancer therapy	Professor Wong Ka Leung, Gary	1,500,000.00
ITF (Tier 3-Round 2)	On Developing a Lip-password Based Face Recognition System	Professor Cheung Yiu Ming	1,354,728.75

ITF-UICP: Innovation and Technology Fund, University-Industry Collaboration Programme

HMRF: Health and Medical Research Fund

Dr Jade Shi’s Team Awarded Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) in 2018

Dr Jade Shi, Associate Professor of the Department of Physics was awarded a CRF equipment grant by RGC in 2018, together with Co-PIs from four other local universities to establish the first high-resolution, live-cell imaging system for quantifying long-term 3D dynamics of large tissue models and organisms.

The system, named Andor Dragonfly, was installed in March 2019 and is now fully functional to carry out research projects that require imaging large 3D bio-samples (e.g., organoids, cancer spheroids and C. elegans embryos) over long duration of time (hours to days), a critical imaging capability that was previously unavailable in Hong Kong. We envision the establishment of this new long-term 3D live-cell imaging system for shared usage will enhance the research competitiveness of Hong Kong in life science and biomedicine, enable research development with international excellence and promote cross-institutional collaboration to unravel complex bio-dynamics.

Project Coordinator	Project Title	Coordinating University/Collaborating University(ies)	Funded Amount (HK$)
Dr Jade Shi	High-resolution Live-cell Imaging System for Quantifying Long-term 3D Dynamics of Large Tissue Models and Organisms	HKBU, CityU, PolyU, HKUST, HKU	6,932,026.00

Source: https://www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/funded_research/funding_results/17-18.html

Administered by the RGC, the CRF aims at encouraging research group in UGC-funded universities to engage in collaborative research across disciplines and across universities with a view to enhancing the research output of universities in terms of the level of attainment, quantity, dimensions and speed. CRF is one of the most competitive research grants in Hong Kong, the awarded project has gone through vigorous review process.