News and Events

The CityU-HKU-NUS Joint Symposium 2024 was held successfully at CityU on 24 April with the theme of “Innovations in Healthcare: Advanced Technology for Disease Diagnostics and Treatment”. We were honored to invite four plenary speakers and 15 invited speakers from CityU, HKU and NUS to share their expertise and research findings on that day.

The 49th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, held from 17 to 21 April in Switzerland, featured over 1,000 inventions from 38 countries and regions. This year, we have three teams that have been awarded Gold Medals. All award-winning teams are starts-up under HK Tech 300.

To provide MSBME students a better understanding of the biomedical engineering field and the career prospects in Hong Kong, the Department arranged a technical visit to the Hong Kong Science Park (HKSTP) for them on 27 March.

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Yong Zhang, Chair Professor and Head of Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), City University of Hong Kong (CityU), has been awarded the prestigious "Global STEM Professorship" by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The Global STEM Professorship is awarded to accomplished scholars in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

The Department organized a MSc Biomedical Engineering Spring Lunch at the Faculty Lounge, CityU on 23 February 2024. The event was well attended by more than 80 guests, including Prof. John MOK and Mr Keith LEUNG, the Industrial Advisor of the MSBME programme, faculty members and students.

The Symposium on Miniaturized Systems for Biomedical Applications was successfully held on 19 January 2024 in CityU with over 150 participants attended.