Annual Report 2022–23

18 香港中文大學年報 CUHK Annual Report 2022–2023 拉斯克獎 Lasker Award 中大李嘉誠健康科學研究所所長、李 嘉誠醫學教授及化學病理學教授、醫 學院副院長（研究）兼化學病理學系主 任盧煜明教授獲頒拉斯克獎──臨床 醫學研究，以表揚他憑藉血漿DNA診 斷技術，開創無創產前診斷方法的革 命性貢獻。該獎項是全球最高榮譽生 物醫學科學獎之一，盧教授是迄今第五 名獲獎之華人。 Professor Dennis Lo Yuk-ming, Director of the Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Li Ka Shing Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Chemical Pathology and Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Medicine, won the Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for his revolutionary contributions to medical science, including the discovery of cell-free fetal DNA in maternal blood and the development of non-invasive prenatal testing for Down Syndrome. Professor Lo is the fifth Chinese person to win the Award, which is widely recognised as one of the world’s most prestigious biomedical research awards. 裘槎醫學科學教授席 Croucher Professorship in Medical Sciences 醫學院內科及藥物治療學系黃秀娟 教授獲任命為裘槎醫學科學教授，此 乃裘槎基金會成立至今所頒授的首個 以基金會命名之教授席。黃教授是國 際知名腸道微生態專家，她在就職演 講上分享她當科學家及企業家的種種 經歷，以及追尋夢想成為「微生物獵 人」過程中的高低起跌。 Professor Siew Ng from the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics in the Faculty of Medicine became the Croucher Professor in Medical Sciences, the first named professorship bestowed in the name of the Croucher Foundation. In her inaugural lecture, the world-renowned clinician-scientist, who studies the gut microbiome, shared her life journey as a scientist and an entrepreneur, and the highs and lows in her pursuit of her dream as a “microbe hunter”. IEEE信息理論學會論文獎 2023 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award 2023 信息工程學系李卓霆助理教授與 美國加州大學柏克萊分校Venkat Anantharam教授共同撰寫論文《以 泊松配對引理證明單發可達性的統 一框架》，獲電機及電子工程師學會 （IEEE）頒授2023年信息理論學會論 文獎。這是中大學者第三次獲此殊榮， 次數為全港院校之冠。 Professor Li Cheuk-ting, Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Engineering, received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Information Theory Society Paper Award 2023 for the paper “A Unified Framework for One- Shot Achievability via the Poisson Matching Lemma” that he co-authored with Professor Venkat Anantharam from the University of California, Berkeley. This marks the third time that a CUHK faculty member has won this grand award, a record among Hong Kong institutions.