CU Medicine Receives HK$30 Million RGC’s Collaborative Research Fund 2021/22
Five research projects of CU Medicine received over HK$30 million in 2021-22 Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) of the Research Grants Council (RGC).
These collaborative research projects span an extensive range of areas, including SARS-CoV-2, long-COVID, neuromuscular degeneration, miscarriages and sleep disorders.
This grant affirms the accomplishments of our research staff and provides strong support to further enhance Hong Kong’s position as an internationally recognised innovation and technology hub.
Full details of the CU Medicine-led projects are as follows:
CRF 2021/22 Collaborative Research Project Grant (CRPG) and Collaborative Research Equipment Grant (CREG) Proposals:
Project Coordinator (Faculty/Department) | Proposal Title | Duration (Months) | Amount Awarded (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professor CHEUNG Winghoi (Orthopaedics and Traumatology) | Dissecting the Therapeutic Mechanism of an Effective Combination Treatment Targeting Neuromuscular Junction Degeneration and Myosteatosis to Combat Sarcopenia | 36 | 4,772,807 |
| Professor WING Yun-kwok (Psychiatry) | Multi-modal Approaches to Determine Digital Clinical Phenotyping, Novel Proteomic Biomarkers, and Microbiota-host Responses of REM Sleep Behavior Disorder, a Prodromal Stage of Alphasynucleinopathy Neurodegeneration, in a Prospective Family Cohort | 36 | 7,214,620 |
| Professor CHOY Richard Kwong-wai (Obstetrics and Gynaecology) | Recurrent First Trimester Miscarriage: Genetic Etiology, Diagnosis and Prevention | 48 | 8,021,650 |
Second CRF Covid-19 and NID Exercise Group Research Proposals:
Project Coordinator (Faculty/Department) | Proposal Title | Duration (Months) | Amount Awarded (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr CHAU Steven Wai-ho (Psychiatry) | Neuropsychiatric’ Long-COVID’ in Adult Patients | 12* | 3,251,480 |
| Professor CHEUNG Peter Pak-hang (Chemical Pathology) | From Structural to Genomic Biology: A Multi-scale Approach Tightly Integrating Structural Biology and Novel Genomics Platform to Quantitatively Analyse the Transcription and its Regulation of SARS-CoV-2 Viral RNA Polymerase | 36 | 8,000,000 |
*Supported for one-year seed money and exploratory funding.
About the Collaborative Research Fund (CRF)
The Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) supports multi-investigator and multidisciplinary research groups in the University Grants Committee (UGC)-funded universities in order to encourage more research groups to engage in creative and high-quality cross-disciplinary projects.
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