We are delighted to share that four outstanding researchers from the School of Biomedical Sciences have been awarded funding under the Research Grants Council (RGC) Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) 2025/26 Exercise. This accomplishment is part of a major university-wide achievement, with HKU securing a total of 12 funded projects and over HK$72 million in research grants.

Awarded Projects:

• Neural mechanisms of consolidated memory editing in humans and mice
  Project Investigator: Professor Cora Lai Sau-wan, Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine

• Molecular Mechanisms of Non-Homologous End Joining Regulating Nucleosome Remodeling in Human DNA Repair
  Project Investigator: Professor Liang Shikang, Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine

• Investigation the Mechanism of Coronavirus RNA Replication and Translocation within Replication Organelle
  Project Investigator: Professor Ni Tao, Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine

• Human centromere structure and its maintenance mechanism
  Project Investigator: Professor Zhou Keda, Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine 

Congratulations to all awardees!

For the full list of funded projects for 2025/26 under the Research Impact Fund and Collaborative Research Fund, please visit the UGC website.