[August 2022 issue]

Five young scholars from CUHK have received awards from the Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Hong Kong and Macao) (2022), and two of them are affiliated to the College – Prof. Lee Man-chun from the Department of Mathematics, and Prof. Zhang Xiang from the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics. Each of the researchers will receive funding of RMB two million to support their scientific research projects in Hong Kong.

The project of Prof. Lee is entitled “Geometric analysis”. His original achievements and outstanding theoretical and applied contributions include investigating the existence and regularization theory of Ricci flows on complete manifolds with unbounded geometry.

The project of Prof. Zhang is entitled “Basic and translational research in non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases (NAFLD)”.  She will explore the synergistic effect of the intestinal and liver factors in the pathogenesis of NAFLD and the clinical implication of targeting intestinal genes as NAFLD therapeutics.