News and Events
News and Events in 2020
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Dr. Xinge YU Awarded 2020 Innovators Under 35 of China by MIT Technology Review
11 DEC 2020Congratulations to Dr. Xinge YU for awarding the 2020 Innovators Under 35 of China by MIT Technology Review for his research on developing a system of skin-Integrated wireless haptic interfaces (e-skin) for virtual and augmented reality.
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Prof. Jinlian Hu and Her Team Obtained Gold Award (Invention) at the 24th National Exhibition of Inventions
10 DEC 2020Congratulations to Prof. Jinlian HU and her team for obtaining the Gold Award (Invention) at the 24th National Exhibition of Inventions - Belt & Road and BRICS Skills Development & Technology Innovation Competition organized by the China Association of Inventions (CAI) and various government units for their project "用於收集水的仿天然蜘蛛捕絲結構的新材料".
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Student Innovation Grand Award in Hong Kong ICT Awards 2020
5 DEC 2020Congratulations to Miss Megan Xiaoting LI, PhD student of Dr. King LAI, for winning the Student Innovation Grand Award for their project "Flexible and Wearable Yarn-Based Strain Sensor" in Hong Kong ICT Award 2020.
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Research Students Received HKMHDIA Student Research Award 2019/20
20 NOV 2020Congratulations to our PhD graduates Dr. WANG Zixun, under the supervision of Prof. SHI Peng, and PhD student Mr. HUANG Jianpan, under the supervision of Dr. Kannie CHAN, on receiving the Hong Kong Medical and Healthcare Device Industries Association (HKMHDIA) Student Research Award 2019-20.
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Novel magnetic spray transforms objects into millirobots for biomedical applications
18 NOV 2020Dr. Yajing SHEN and his team, including Mr. Xiong YANG and Miss Rong TAN, and collaborators Dr. Xinyu WU and Dr. Wanfeng SHANG from SIAT of CAS, Dr. Haojian LU, Dr. Yanting LI and Mr. Liu YANG, have constructed millirobots by coating objects with a composited glue-like magnetic spray, called M-spray.
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Student Innovation (Post-Graduate) Gold Award in Hong Kong ICT Awards 2020
7 NOV 2020Congratulations to Miss Megan Xiaoting Li, PhD student of Dr. King LAI, for winning the Student Innovation (Post-Graduate) Gold Award for their project "Flexible and Wearable Yarn-Based Strain Sensor" in the flagship Hong Kong ICT Awards 2020 on 7 November 2020.
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Second-class Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Science and Technology)
29 SEP 2020Congratulations to Professor SUN Dong for receiving the Second-class Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Science and Technology) in the Natural Sciences category. The research project is titled "基於機器人技術的細胞微納操作理論與方法".
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1st International Conference on Wearable Electronics and Their Potential in Modernization of Chinese Medicine
24 SEP 2020Prof. Jinlian HU served as the Organizing Chair of the 1st International Conference on Wearable Electronics and Their Potential in Modernization of Chinese Medicine held online on 24-25 September 2020.
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Virtual Industrial Day, 11 September 2020
9 SEP 2020The Virtual Industrial Day jointly organized by The College of Engineering and the Federation of Hong Kong Industries will be held on 11 September 2020 (Friday).
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New Student Orientation
26 AUG 2020The Department has organized the New Student Orientation for welcoming new students of BEng Biomedical Engineering and MSc Biomedical Engineering in real-time online format via Zoom on 26 August and 28 August 2020 respectively.
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Task Force to Study mHealth and Wearable Technologies for Fighting COVID-19 Pandemic
20 AUG 2020An International Task Force involving Professor Zhang Yuanting and cerebro-cardiovascular health engineering experts from CityU led by the team of Harvard Medical School has conducted a study to review mHealth and wearable technologies and concluded that such technologies can be used to monitor COVID-19 patients and predict symptom escalation for earlier intervention.
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OCSMRM Young Investigator Award 2020
8 AUG 2020Congratulations to Mr. HUANG Jianpan, PhD student of Dr. Kannie CHAN, for being awarded the 2nd Place of Young investigator Award (YIA) in the Annual Meeting of Overseas Chinese Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (OCSMRM) on 8-13 August 2020.
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MWLC Appoints Prof. Dongan WANG as Head of Research
3 AUG 2020Congratulations to Prof. Dongan WANG on being appointed as Head of Research for Ming Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine (MWLC) of Karolinska Institutet (KI), Hong Kong, part-time from 1 August 2020.
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Intelligent Robotics for Elderly Assistance in Hong Kong
24 JUL 2020A recent joint research by Dr. King LAI of the department and Prof Wenping Wang from HKU with title 'Intelligent Robotics for Elderly Assistance in Hong Kong' has brought remarkable changes to improve the quality of life of older adults in Hong Kong, a rapidly aging society.
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CityU Outstanding Research Award 2020
16 JUL 2021Congratulations to Dr. LIU Lu for being awarded the Outstanding Research Awards for Junior Faculty in the CityU Outstanding Research Award 2020, together with Dr. Xi YAO from Biomedical Sciences. The Outstanding Research Awards will be conferred to Professor Henry CHUNG from Department of Electrical Engineering and Professor Kai H LIM from Department of Information Systems.
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Intracellular Biopsy Technique for Fast MicroRNAs Profiling in Living Cells
11 JUN 2020The capability to profile small RNAs responsible for post-transcriptional regulation of genes expression is essential for molecular identification and characterization of cellular phenotypes. However, compared to long RNA, the quantification of small RNA, such as microRNAs (miRNA), in live cells is still challenging. A group led by Prof. SHI Peng develops an intracellular biopsy technique for fast, multiplexed and highly-sensitive profiling of miRNAs.
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Teaching Excellence Award 2020 and Nominations for the UGC Teaching Award 2020
8 JUN 2020Congratulations to Dr. Kannie CHAN, for being one of the six winners of the Teaching Excellence Award (TEA) in CityU this year. Dr. Chan shared that communication is the key to understand students’ aspirations, and this enables her to guide them to identify their goals and the ways to achieve them. She endeavoured to discover the real causes behind any failure and then to seek to improve, an attitude that she encouraged her students to adopt.
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Technology of Making Meltblown Nonwoven Fabrics
30 MAY 2020Respiratory masks are the real frontline defence for medical workers and public during the time of this COVID-19 outbreak. It plays a major role to prevent and lessen the chance of disease transmission from person to person in the form of aerosols or droplets. Current pandemic situation has spurred the demand of making respiratory masks to new heights. People nowadays have been deeply concerned with both the supply chain and the quality of face masks materials hoping to prevent infections and save lives effectively. Prof. HU Jinlian shared her views and made effort in production of Meltblown Nonwoven fabrics.
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Battery-less Soft Millirobot for Future Biomedical Sensing
22 MAY 2020A recent research work led by the team of Dr. Yajing SHEN and Dr. Zhengbao YANG, jointly operated among BME and MNE departments of CityU, developed a battery-less soft millirobot that can move, sense, and communicate remotely by coupling the magnetic and piezoelectric effects. On the basis of the previous work “caterpillar robot”, the team integrated a power generation unit within a thin multi-layer film (<0.5 mm), i.e., a lower magnetic composite limb decorated with multiple feet imparts locomotion and a flexible piezoceramic composite film recoveries energy simultaneously.
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Next Generation Wearable Electronics
18 MAY 2020A recent research work led by the team of Dr. Xinge YU and researchers from the Northwestern University and Huston University has successfully developed a blow-spinning technique that enables realizing 3D-inorganic nanofiber network (FN) films, including transparent metal oxide conducting & semiconducting materials and metallic materials.
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New and Non-invasive Way to Detect Alzheimer's Disease Early
14 MAY 2020Dr. Kannie W.Y. CHAN and her team have collaborated with researchers at Johns Hopkins University in the United States and developed a new, non-invasive way to detect Alzheimer’s disease at early stages. In this preclinical study, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is used to trace glucose in the lymphatic system of mouse brains, as abnormal clearance rate of lymphatic system is associated with early pathology of Alzheimer's disease.
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The New Micro-rocket Robot
12 MAY 2020The study of Dr. Yajing SHEN and Dr. Lidai WANG on the usage of micro/nanorobots on drug delivery and tumor treatment in the human body has broadened the scope of microrobotic applications in the biomedical field, and brought new insights to microrobot design, actuation, and tracking in the blood environment. In the article 'Micro-rocket robot with all-optic actuating and tracking in blood' in the journal Light: Science & Applications, Dr. Shen and Dr. Wang discussed how these microrobots overcome various challenges in moving in the bloodstream of the human body.
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Fabric for Face Masks
13 MAR 2020The widespread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has caused the number of cases and deaths to climb in Hong Kong and many countries. People nowadays have been deeply concerned both the supply chain and the quality of face masks hoping to prevent infections and save lives. Prof. HU Jinlian shared her views in production of Meltblown Non-woven Fabric, which is an important material for production of face masks.
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Last modified on 9 April, 2021