Bulletin No. 2, 2024

15 CUHK Choh-Ming Li Professor of Life Sciences Lam Hon-ming is dedicated to promoting climate- smart and sustainable agriculture, aiming to transform the future of our global community and village development with the power of scientific research. A pioneer in soybean genomic research, Professor Lam’s project “Seeding the Future: Integrating Biotechnology, Space Technology and AIoT to Soybean Cultivation for Food Security and Environmental Solutions” was among the first batch of research projects accepted into the RAISe+ Scheme this year. “RAISe+ is an effective platform which provides us with a valuable opportunity to transcend our research achievements beyond academia,” he says. To this end, the team founded FARMily Biotechnology Company Limited to bring years of soybean research to fruition. Speaking of commercialisation, Professor Lam is keen to transform research output into practical applications that can change the world, such as cultivating stress-tolerant seeds and providing climate-smart solutions to sustainable agriculture. The team will also focus on enhancing the value of agricultural products, including developing soybean functional foods to improve nutritional health in the elderly. “Soybeans are rich in protein and isoflavones, nutrients that benefit people as they age. We believe that the development of soybean functional foods