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Prof. Eddie Ma awarded Research Impact Fund 2024/25
9 January 2025
Congratulations to Prof. Eddie Ma on receiving the Research Grants Council (RGC) Research Impact Fund (RIF) for 2024/25. His project, titled “Development and Validation of Novel Therapeutic Agents for Glaucoma Treatment through Integrated Preclinical and Clinical Studies with a Drug Repurposing Approach” has secured funding of HK$8.71 million.
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Two NS faculty members awarded RGC Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) 2024/25
9 January 2025
Congratulations to Prof. Jufang He and Prof. Jessica Liu on being awarded the 2024/25 Research Grants Council (RGC) Collaborative Research Fund (CRF). Their success showcases our faculty members’ exceptional research expertise and commitment to advancing the frontiers of knowledge.
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Dr Ming-Fai Fong presented a seminar entitled “Leveraging Transient Vision Loss as Tool for Driving Therapeutic Plasticity”
3 December 2024
On 3 December 2024, Professor Ming-Fai FONG from the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech and Emory University delivered a lecture about her discoveries of new treatments for amblyopia (“lazy eye”) through modulating homeostatic plasticity in the mature, mammalian nervous system.
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Prof. Jessica Liu awarded funding under NSFC/RGC Collaborative Research Scheme
15 November 2024
Three research projects by City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) outstanding scholars have been awarded funding under the 2024/25 National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Research Grants Council (RGC) Collaborative Research Scheme (CRS), amounting to over HK$8.8 million. The number of funded projects for this exercise at CityUHK was tied for the highest in Hong Kong.
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Prof. Jessica Liu awarded ITF grant
31 October 2024
Congratulations to Prof. Jessica Liu, who has just been awarded the Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) grant for HK$1,393,800 under the Partnership Research Programme (PRP) in collaboration with Lucy Biotech Limited for “Development of a Novel Permeable Transcriptional Factor System for Generating Personalized Neural Stem Cell in Regenerative Medicine”.
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CityUHK Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture by Prof. SHIN Hee-Sup
29 October 2024
On 29 October 2024, Prof. Hee-Sup Shin, Distinguished Visiting Professor of CityUHK, delivered a lecture at on “Neural Circuits Controlling Vicarious Fear in Affective Empathy”. The event attracted a diverse crowd of audience eager to explore the brain’s mechanisms underlying fear responses.
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Neurodiagnostic and neurotherapeutic potential of graphene nanomaterials
Yang, S., Baeg, E., Kim, K., Kim, D., Ahn, J.-H. & Yang, S.* (2024). Neurodiagnostic and neurotherapeutic potential of graphene nanomaterials. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 247:115906.
Entorhinohippocampal cholecystokinin modulates spatial learning by facilitating neuroplasticity of hippocampal CA3-CA1 synapses
Su, J., Huang, F.*., Tian, Y., Tian, R., Qianqian, G., Bello, S. T., Zeng, D., Jendrichovsky, P., Lau, C. G., Xiong, W., Yu, D., Tortorella, M., Chen, X.* & He, J.* (2023). Entorhinohippocampal cholecystokinin modulates spatial learning by facilitating neuroplasticity of hippocampal CA3-CA1 synapses. Cell Reports, 42:113467.
Astrocyte and L-lactate in the anterior cingulate cortex modulate schema memory and neuronal mitochondrial biogenesis
Akter, M., Hasan, M., Ramkrishnan, A. S., Iqbal, Z., Zheng, X., Fu, Z., Lei, Z., Karim, A. & Li, Y.* (2023). Astrocyte and L-lactate in the anterior cingulate cortex modulate schema memory and neuronal mitochondrial biogenesis. eLife, 12, e85751.
Low-dose ionizing radiation promotes motor recovery and brain rewiring by resolving inflammatory response after brain injury and stroke
Au, N. P. B., Wu, T., Kumar, G., Jin, Y., Li, Y. Y. T., Chan, S. L., Lai, J. H. C., Chan, K. W. Y., Yu, K. N., Wang, X., Ma, C. H. E.* (2024). Low-dose ionizing radiation promotes motor recovery and brain rewiring by resolving inflammatory response after brain injury and stroke. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 115, 43-63.
Does astrocytic L-lactate enhance cognition through myelination?
Akter, M. & Li, Y.* (2024). Does astrocytic L-lactate enhance cognition through myelination? Neural Regeneration Research 19(6), 1167-1168.
Cross-modal implicit learning of random time patterns
Kang, H., Auksztulewicz, R., Chan, C. H., Cappotto, D., Rajendran, V. G., & Schnupp, J. W. H. (2023). Cross-modal implicit learning of random time patterns. Hearing Research, 438, 108857.
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