[August 2023 issue]

 

CUHK students received a total of 21 awards at the 9th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, among which our students Chong Hio-lam (Chemistry/Year 4) and Xu Ching-fai (Biomedical Engineering/Year 3) were awarded the First Prize in the Innovation category (Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering) and the Merit Prize in the Innovation category (Life Sciences), respectively for their projects titled “From Packaging Materials to Meals: The Potential of Bacterial Cellulose as Sustainable Food Packaging” and “Deliver Cytotoxic Substance by scFv Region of Antibody to Exert Cytotoxicity as Therapeutic Approach of Liver Cancer”.