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Diagnosis and Prognosis of Intensifying Eutrophication, Hypoxia
and the Ecosystem Consequences around Hong Kong Waters:
Coupled Physical-biogeochemical-pollution Studies
PROF JIANPING GAN
Smart Urban Water Supply Systems (Smart UWSS)
PROF MOHAMED S GHIDAOUI
Creation of Rechargeable Electron-fuels for Stationary Power
Supplies and Electric Vehicles
PROF TIANSHOU ZHAO
Cost-effective and Eco-friendly LED System-on-a-chip (SoC)
PROF KEI MAY LAU
Understanding Debris Flow Mechanisms and Mitigating
Risks for a Sustainable Hong Kong
PROF CHARLES WW NG
Stem Cell Strategy for Nervous System Disorders
PROF NANCY IP
Theme-based Research Scheme
Partner State Key Laboratory on Advanced Displays
and Optoelectronics Technologies
PROF HOI SING KWOK
Partner State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience
PROF NANCY IP
Partner State Key Laboratory
Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research
Center for Control and Treatment of Heavy Metal Pollution
PROF GUANGHAO CHEN
Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research
Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction
PROF BEN ZHONG TANG
Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National
Engineering Research Center
Large-scale Competitive Research Programs (Current)
The Areas of Excellence Scheme, Theme-based Research Scheme and Collaborative Research Fund are large-scale group research
grants awarded by Hong Kong Research Grants Council. The grants support internationally recognized research expertise in order to
develop areas of excellence that can help maintain and enhance Hong Kong’s overall development. They also support research areas of
strategic importance for Hong Kong’s long-term development, and encourage out-of-the-box cross-disciplinary projects. Partner State
Key Laboratory and Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center are national research laboratories approved by
the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Mechanistic Basis of Synaptic Development, Signaling
and Neuro-disorders
PROF MINGJIE ZHANG
Cellular Mechanisms of Synaptic Functions and Plasticity
in Health and Neurodegenerative Diseases
PROF NANCY IP
Novel Wave Functional Materials for Manipulating Light and Sound
PROF CHE TING CHAN
Areas of Excellence Scheme
Super-resolution Electron Microscopy Facility
for Cross-disciplinary Materials Research
PROF NING WANG
A Mask-making System for Nanoelectronic Device
and Circuit Fabrication
PROF MAN SUN CHAN
Equipment Projects
Elucidation of the Role of Pax7 in Muscle Stem Cells
PROF ZHENGUO WU
From Molecular Dynamics to Systems Biology:
A Multi-scale Approach Tightly Integrating Simulation
and Experiment to Quantitatively Analyze the Transcription
Accuracy of RNA Polymerase II
PROF XUHUI HUANG
Research in Fundamental Physics: From the
Large Hadron Collider to the Universe
PROF HENRY TYE
Total Municipal Organic Waste Management by Integrating
Food Waste Disposal and Sewage Treatment (MOW-FAST)
PROF GUANGHAO CHEN
A Deep Reactive Ion Etching System for Nanosystem Fabrication
PROF ANDREW POON
A Platform for Measuring the Physical Properties of
Quantum Materials
PROF JIANNONG WANG
Dynamics of Soft Matter at Interfaces: Theory, Simulations
and Experiments
PROF PENGER TONG
Group Research Projects
Collaborative Research Fund
Coping with Landslide Risks in Hong Kong under Extreme
Storms: Storm Scenarios, Cascading Landslide Hazards
and Multi-hazard Risk Assessment
PROF LIMIN ZHANG
Community and Population Aging in Hong Kong: An Extension
of the Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics (HKPSSD)
PROF XIAOGANG WU
Study of Cooling Effect by Surface Treatment and its
Application to Smart Green Buildings
PROF CHRISTOPHER CHAO
Study of Topological Phases in Condensed Matter and Cold
Atom Systems
PROF KAM TUEN LAW
The Role of IL-33 in Synaptic Dysfunctions and
Pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s Disease
PROF NANCY IP
