by admin | May 15, 2025
After the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984, many filmmakers and writers in Hong Kong and elsewhere speculated on the possibility of a resulting identity crisis. Professor Alvin K Wong, Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, says...
by admin | May 14, 2025
The project, which is a collaboration between the Faculty of Architecture’s MetaBIM Research Lab and the Home Affairs Department (HAD), was born out of a tragedy in March 2022, when fire swept through a subdivided tenement in Mong Kok district, killing one woman.“My...
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
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...
