HKU Community Pharmacy Opens Shop

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...

Live Action Learning

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...

Personal Record

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...

Online, in Touch

“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...

In the Blood

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...