Awards given to staff and students
February 1, 2012: Congratulation to Mr. Chan Yiu Ming and Ms. Chan Ling Chim who who were presented with the Long Service Awards by the Vice Chancellor to honour their 25 years (Mr. Chan Yiu Ming) and 15 years (Ms. Chan Ling Chim) of service and contributions to the University.
December 8, 2011: Congratulations to Ms Shen Yun, PhD candidate at the Department of Biochemistry, for being awarded the Best poster presentation at the 16th Research Postgraduate Symposium.
November 28, 2011: Congratulations to Dr. Julian Tanner for being awarded the Faculty Teaching Medals at the Faculty Graduation and Prize Presentation Ceremony.
September, 2011: Congratulations to Miss Pearl Chen Lu Hua, PhD candidate, Department of Biochemistry. She received a Travel Fellowship to the 2011 International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease in France in July 2011. She also received the Best Paper Award from the Faculty for her paper entitled “Association between CLU Polymorphisms and Clinical Phenotypes in Alzheimer’s Disease”.
June 21, 2011: Congratulations to Yalun Zhang (PhD student under the supervsion of Dr. YQ Song) for winning the championship in the first Three Minute Thesis (3MTTM) Competition for HKU. Read more...
June 1, 2011: Congratulations to Dr. Kato Shum for being awarded second prize in the 'Johnson & Johnson Asia Outstanding Graduate Thesis Award in Bio-tech'. Read more...
Feb 17, 2011: Dr. Martin Cheung, Professor Kathryn Cheah, and Dr. Danny Chan were awarded the Research Output Prize at the Award Presentation Ceremony for Excellence in Teaching and Research 2010 for their paper entitled "A Mutation in Ihh that Causes Digit Abnormalities Alters Its Signaling Capacity and Range", published in Nature, April 2009.
Feb, 2011: Dr. Zhongjun Zhou, and collaborators from the Mainland, has been awarded the Second Class State Scientific and Technological Progress Award by the National Office of Science and Technology Awards for the project entitled "Study on the molecular mechanisms modulating aging as well as the establishment and application of individual aging-evaluating system".
Jan 15, 2011: Dr. Nai Sum Wong was awarded a Faculty Teaching Medal in recognition of teaching excellence during the Faculty Graduation and Prize Presentation Ceremony 2010.
Dec 2-3, 2010: Mr. Kin Shing Lee (PhD student in Department of Biochemistry) received a Certificate of Merit for his poster presentation in the 15th Research Postgraduate Symposium.
Jan 2010: Congratulation to Dr. MH Sham who won the Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award in the 2008-9 round of the University's Outstanding Researcher Awards Scheme. Dr. Sham was honoured at the Award Presentation Ceremony for Excellence in Teaching and Research held in Jan 28, 2010.
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Jun 2009: Congratulation to Professor Kathryn Cheah who was presented with the Long Service Awards to senior staff by the Vice Chancellor to honour her 25 years of service and contributions to the University. The full list of recipients can be found at http://www.hku.hk/press/news_detail_5986.html
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Feb 2009: Congratulation to Mr. Tse Shui Lun who was presented with the Long Service Awards by the Vice Chancellor to honour his 25 years of loyal service to the University.
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Dec 2008: Three postgraduate students from Department of Biochemistry were awarded Certificates of Merit for their poster presentations in the 13th Research Postgraduate Symposium: (From Faculty Newsletter, LKS Faculty of Medicine)
Nov 2008: Congratulation to Dr. DY Jin who won the University Outstanding Researcher Award. The Outstanding Researcher Award recognizes staff with exceptional research accomplishments of international merit. Selections are made on the basis of work published within the past five years.
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Nov 2008: Congratulation to Dr. MH Sham who was awarded the Faculty Teaching Medal, LKS Faculty of Medicine. The Faculty Teaching Medals are established to identify, recognize and reward Faculty members who are excellent in teaching or in the promotion of good practice in teaching.
Nov 2008: Dr. Baohua Liu was awarded the prestigious Li Ka Shing Prize for his PhD thesis entitled "Genomic Instability and Accelerated Cellular Senescence in Laminopathy-based Premature Aging."
The Li Ka Shing Prize is awarded every year to 6 postgraduate degree graduates. Prizes are awarded to 1 MPhil graduate and 2 PhD graduates of each of the two broad groups of "arts and humanities" and "science and engineering".
Description of Dr. Baohua Liu and his research (excerpted from Graduate School Newsletter Vol 11 No 2, Spring 2009)
Sept 2008: Ling Fung Tang (PhD student) was awarded 1st prize for his oral presentation entitled: "Mapping of Genetic Modifier(s) of Embryonic Lethality in Type IIA Procollagen Deficient Mice" in the FEBS Advanced Lecture Course in New Developments in Quantitative Molecular Bioscience which took place on Spetses Island, Greece from 10-17th September, 2008.