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The Hong Kong College of Science and Expertise (HKUST) achieved a big milestone on the forty eighth Worldwide Exhibition of Innovations Geneva, incomes 20 awards for 19 groundbreaking innovations.
Highlights of the award-winning innovations embody a biomarker-based detection system for assessing Alzheimer’s illness, superior polymer-based therapeutics for power illness, metallic 3D printing by ultrasonic excitation and lively temperature management, in addition to 4 modern applied sciences on water remedy developed in tandem with the Drainage Providers Division.
This marks HKUST’s first institutional participation on this prestigious worldwide occasion. The popularity it obtained—a complete of 20 awards—contains one Prize of the Chinese language Delegation for Invention and Innovation, three Gold Medals with Congratulations of the Jury, 5 Gold Medals, six Silver Medals, and 5 Bronze Medals.
“We’re proud that HKUST’s innovations and applied sciences have been nicely acknowledged on the Worldwide Exhibition of Innovations Geneva. It demonstrates our robust analysis capabilities on frontier analysis, which finest positions us to assist fill the hole by constructing a sturdy ecosystem from primary analysis to impression. Our success additionally exhibits the entrepreneurial spirit of our college students, alumni, and schools.,” stated Professor Tim Cheng, HKUST Vice-President for Analysis and Improvement.
Creative Initiatives Ship Vast-Ranging Influence
HKUST’s successful initiatives embody an expansive array of fields. The analysis challenge on assessing Alzheimer’s illness with protein biomarker panels led by HKUST President Professor Nancy Ip, gained the Prize of the Chinese language Delegation for Invention and Innovation and the Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury. The trailblazing biomarker-based detection system can establish Alzheimer’s illness 5 to 10 years earlier than signs manifest by detecting modifications in blood biomarker ranges.
Two different breakthrough initiatives had been additionally awarded Gold Medals with Congratulations of the Jury. The primary—steered by Professor Chau Ying from HKUST Division of Chemical and Organic Engineering—employs superior polymer-based therapeutics for power illness administration. This pioneering idea has the potential to assist thousands and thousands worldwide who’re affected by dry eye illness, age-related macular degeneration, and osteoarthritis.
In the meantime, a challenge led by Emeritus Professor Matthew Yuen Ming-Fai, from HKUST Division of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, reimagines metallic 3D printing. Utilizing ultrasonic excitation and lively temperature management to affect molten metallic on a molecular stage, the know-how is ready to obtain high-quality metallic merchandise in a 10-times sooner and cost-efficient manner with fewer CO2 emissions.
Healthcare applied sciences had been a dominant throughline in HKUST’s entries, with a number of targeted on advancing medical procedures, enhancing surgical outcomes, and bettering affected person well-being. Initiatives embody a histological imaging system for exact surgical margin knowledge throughout most cancers surgical procedure, a nanowire-based synthetic retina to revive imaginative and prescient broken by retinal illness and an “synthetic cell” platform for activation and
enlargement of various immune cells to help cell therapeutics manufacturing. A few of these life-altering innovations have already transitioned from the analysis lab to real-world purposes.
Good metropolis options additionally performed a distinguished position, together with 4 water remedy improvements devised by HKUST researchers in collaboration with the HKSAR Authorities’s Drainage Providers Division. These options make the most of new applied sciences akin to odor management, solid-liquid separation, and pipeline monitoring to enhance the administration of public services.
Fostering a Strong Ecosystem for Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Data Switch
Hong Kong’s emphasis on innovation and entrepreneurship in recent times has prompted each the federal government and native universities to extend help for analysis and innovation, encourage entrepreneurial exercise, and lend important help to information and know-how switch.
As the primary college in Hong Kong to spend money on entrepreneurship, HKUST’s Workplace of Data Switch, as an example, provides funding, startup recommendation, mentorship, {and professional} companies to startups based by HKUST college, researchers, and college students. Professor Cheng added, “We are going to proceed to advance the readiness of our analysis and know-how, whereas on the identical time partaking our business and authorities companions at an early stage to shorten the journey of tech switch and push the boundaries of information to create significant impression to society, not solely in Hong Kong however everywhere in the world.”
Based on Nature’s Main 200 tutorial establishments by patent affect metric rankings, HKUST is the very best Chinese language college and comes thirty third globally based mostly on knowledge collected from 2000 to 2020.
