by admin | May 14, 2025
When Professor Ian Wong Chi-kei arrived at HKU from the UK in 2011 to head the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, he was struck by one thing: training was focussed almost entirely on public hospitals. This was very unlike places like the UK, Canada and Australia...
by admin | May 14, 2025
Immersing students in clinical environments is always a challenge. Pandemic restrictions, large class sizes and other obstacles make it difficult to provide sufficient real-life exposure. But with the aid of technology – and a well-constructed debriefing...
by admin | May 14, 2025
The team have developed an innovative in-sensor computing platform that integrates stretchable organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) with advanced sensing and edge AI capabilities.“The key innovation lies in combining sensing, computing and stretchability into a...
by admin | May 14, 2025
“These positive associations were observed in more than 87,000 people across 23 countries and, representing a wide variety of cultural and economic contexts,” said Professor Zhang Qingpeng, from the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy and HKU Musketeers Foundation...
by admin | May 14, 2025
Scientists at HKUMed have invented a groundbreaking regimen – an oral formulation of arsenic trioxide (oral-ATO, or ARSENOL®) – for the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL), a blood cancer which has a high fatality rate. They have been...