Stellar results in the 2025 National Natural Science Foundation of China funding exercise highlight the exceptional calibre of HKU’s young researchers and Hong Kong’s contributions to advancing innovation.
HKU President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Xiang Zhang welcomes the Chief Executive’s 2025 Policy Address initiatives that enhance Hong Kong’s innovation potential and promote synergy among education, technology, and talent development to advance its status as a global education hub.
HKU’s new Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Institutional Advancement) Professor Yang Wang is a philomath who brings his global outlook, rich administrative experience and a flair for networking to his new role at HKU.
Two remarkable HKU students – Cherry Tam from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Harold Lam from the Faculty of Architecture – have been named Top 10 Outstanding Tertiary Students of Hong Kong in 2025.
HKU research reveals how ocean acidification can trigger an inherited sexual bias in oyster reproduction that could have long-term implications for their survival and coastal ecosystems.
Researchers at HKUMed have discovered that atorvastatin, traditionally a medication for cholesterol, can effectively target liver cancer cells, enhancing existing treatments and providing new hope for patients with limited treatment options.
An interdisciplinary research project led by HKU archaeologists is saving the past by using cutting-edge technologies to digitally record the form and location of artefacts they unearth at an on-going project in Armenia.
Five HKU State Key Laboratories were honoured with plaques by the Ministry of Science and Technology, marking a significant milestone and the promise of further national and international technological advancement.
Professor Jay Siegel is HKU’s new Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning). Learn more about his vision to bring out the best in HKU’s students in a world saturated with technology.
With 2025 being the United Nation’s Year of the Quantum, global experts and researchers from around the world converged at HKU for the 25th Asian Quantum Information Science Conference (AQIS’25).
A Hakka village in Guangxi, China gets abundant rainfall but also struggles with a critical shortage of fresh water and hygiene problems. HKU’s Project Mingde took on these challenges with the award-winning Duling Educational and Cultural Centre.
Twelve HKU scholars have been named among the top 100 global researchers in their respective fields by Research.com in its 2025 rankings. Among them, five professors are ranked first in Asia in their disciplines.
Professor Chao Xiang of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering was honoured with the 2025 Croucher Tak Wah Mak Innovation Award in recognition of his research focussed on integrating lasers for advanced photonic integrated circuits.
