Bulletin No. 2, 2019

37 News in Brief Four Researchers Receive China’s Excellent Young Scientists Fund Four scientists were awarded China’s Excellent Young Scientists Fund 2019 by the National Natural Science Foundation of China for their excellent basic research. The Fund would give a boost to their research endeavours. Rural Library Project Scoops Oscar of Architecture The Gaobu Book House, a children’s library built by Prof. Peter W. Ferretto of the School of Architecture and his team Condition_ Lab in collaboration with the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Guangzhou University and local villagers in rural Hunan, won the ‘Completed Buildings— Civic and Community’ category award at the World Architecture Festival 2019, an occasion hailed as the ‘Oscars of architecture’. The project was praised by the judges as ‘totally intertwined with the community—a project that goes well beyond the actual building and demonstrates excellence of process’. Accolades for Medical Scientists Prof. Dennis Lo and Prof. Rossa Chiu of the Faculty of Medicine are named two of the top 20 translational researchers of 2018 by the world-renowned scientific journal Nature Biotechnology . They are the only Hong Kong researchers on the list, and this is the third consecutive year for Professor Lo to receive this honour. The two professors were selected for their achievements in the areas of cancer and fetal diagnostics. Meanwhile, Professor Lo also received the fourth Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award in December for his contribution to areas including non-invasive parental testing and circulating tumour DNA detection. Researcher Department/School Theme of Research Prof. Lui Oi-lan Kathy Department of Chemical Pathology Vascular Disease and Regeneration Prof. Tian Xiaoyu School of Biomedical Sciences Regulation of Vascular Homeostasis by PPARD Prof. Wong Hei Sunny Department of Medicine and Therapeutics Gut Microbiota and Serrated Polyps in Colon Prof. Lu Yi-chun Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering Electrochemical Energy Storage and Materials Interfaces