Research Projects

List of Successful General Research Fund (GRF) / Early Career Scheme (ECS) Projects - 2025-26

  Project Title Project Investigator
1 Imaging aquaporin activities and molecular changes in Parkinson’s disease using advanced MRI Prof CHAN Kannie Wai Yan
2 Collective cell chirality: Investigating the characteristics, the structural and molecular mechanism, and its role in guiding wound healing Prof CHEN Ting Hsuan
3 A Mobile Neurostimulator: Integrated Microrobotic Systems for Neurostimulation Prof DONG Lixin
4 Propulsion-based High-Speed Hopping Robot with Active Leg Swings and Terrain Adaptability Prof CHIRARATTANANON Pakpong
5 Event-triggered optimization for distributed model predictive control of networked multiple dynamical systems and its application Prof FENG Gang
6 Exploring the Microbiome's Influence on Cancer Progression: Development of a Microfluidic Model Integrating TumorAssociated Macrophages and Biofilm Dynamics Prof KHOO Bee Lua
7 Cooperative Target Enclosing Control of Nonholonomic Dynamic Systems with Practical Constraints and Uncertainties Prof LIU Lu*
8 Intradermal delivery of IL-10-expressing CAR T cells using cryomicroneedles for solid tumor treatment and tracking of cell migration within the skin using two-photon imaging Prof XU Chenjie
9 Self-powered wearable haptic interface for hypoesthesia Prof YU Xinge
10 High-Resolution, High-SNR Bioimaging Enabled by Machine Learning Prof ZHANG Qinrong

* Highly-ranked Application

List of Successful General Research Fund (GRF)/ Early Career Scheme (ECS) Projects 2024-2025

  Project Title Project Investigator
1 Uncovering rare inherent resistant single cells through an automatic microfluidic cell shower device to investigate intratumor heterogeneity Prof CHEN Chia-Hung*
2 Hopping Aerial Robots: Reaching New Heights across Size Scales through Thrust-based and Parallel Elastic Actuation Prof CHIRARATTANANON Pakpong*
3 Fixed-time cooperative control of multi-agent systems under denial-of-service attacks and its application Prof FENG Gang*
4 Interplay between Microbial Metal Regulation and Chemotaxis at the Host-Pathogen Interface Studied by Single-molecule Super-resolution Fluorescence Microscopy Prof FU Bing
5 Label-free and high-throughput flow cytometry for single-cell surface protein biosensing using multi-stage constriction microchannels Prof LAM Raymond Hiu-Wai
6 Distributed Event-Triggered Cooperative Control of Nonlinear Multiple Dynamic Systems and Its Applications Prof LIU Lu*
7 Single-cell Encoded Photoporation for High-throughput Combinatorial siRNA Screening Prof SHI Peng
8 Investigation of neuromodulation effect of cerebellum-targeted low intensity transcranial pulsed ultrasound stimulation Prof TIN Chung
9 Characterization and mechanism study of an articular cartilage repair material for space medicine: influence by microgravity and cosmic radiation Prof WANG Dongan
10 Porous metallic microneedle array-based test trip for gingival crevicular fluid collection and analysis Prof XU Chenjie