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![CityUHK research excels with funding for five projects from the RAISe+ Scheme](/sites/g/files/asqsls3821/files/styles/crop_news_block_192_144/public/2024-05/240529_Raise_1.jpg?itok=awzXODWA)
Five research projects from CityUHK were granted funds from the HKSAR Government’s RAISe+ Scheme. This demonstrates CityUHK’s commitment to promoting excellence in high-quality research and innovation, driving the transformation of the University’s world-class scientific research into applications, thereby creating commercial and social value.
![Two CityU start-ups listed in ‘Forbes Asia 100 to Watch 2023’](/sites/g/files/asqsls3821/files/styles/crop_news_block_192_144/public/2023-09/230905_Forbes_Collage_v2.jpg?itok=6UFgB9us)
Two biotech start-ups incubated by CityU have been selected for the “Forbes Asia 100 to Watch 2023”, an annual list published by Forbes Asia highlighting small companies and start-ups on the rise across the Asia Pacific region that are targeting underserved markets with new technologies.
![Major RGC grants secured by CityU scientists](/sites/g/files/asqsls3821/files/styles/crop_news_block_192_144/public/2023-08/230713_Professors_Web_Thumb_3_0.jpg?itok=fxWcwJPa)
Research projects led by scientists at CityU have secured significant grants in both the Areas of Excellence Scheme and the Theme-based Research Scheme funded by the Research Grants Council.
![CityU’s huge success at Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days 2022](/sites/g/files/asqsls3821/files/styles/crop_news_block_192_144/public/2022-03/220328-1_Geneva.jpg?itok=0nf7J5Y8)
Researchers at CityU received tremendous accolades at Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days (IGED) 2022 by winning a total of 22 awards, the highest number among local institutions for two years in a row.
![Correlation found between weather conditions and lower Covid-19 fatality rates: CityU research study](/sites/g/files/asqsls3821/files/styles/crop_news_block_192_144/public/2022-02/20220224-3_yuan.jpg?itok=mmQQjGUa)
Correlation found between weather conditions and lower COVID-19 fatality rates: CityU research study
A correlation exists between the weather and humidity that patients are exposed to during different stages of COVID-19 infection and the probability of death, according to Dr Sean Yuan Hsiang-yu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at CityU, and PhD student Liang Jing-bo.
![5th wave Covid-19](/sites/g/files/asqsls3821/files/styles/crop_news_block_192_144/public/2022-02/20220209-1_DrYuan_0.jpg?itok=lV0KZuTl)
A research team at CityU estimated in mid-January, that if social mobility decreases by around 25% when compared to the level during the Christmas and New Year holidays, a fifth wave will cause around 250,000 infected cases, which is similar to the current pandemic trend in Hong Kong.
![CityU study: testing at-risk people precisely as an exit strategy when border reopens](/sites/g/files/asqsls3821/files/styles/crop_news_block_192_144/public/2021-11/211125-1_DrYuanresearch.jpg?itok=4pfr-HmB)
A research team at CityU has developed the first mathematical model that takes variation in confirmation delay into account, making quantifying the impacts of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as gathering bans more accurate.
![World’s first new discovery of liquid directional steering in two centuries](/sites/g/files/asqsls3821/files/styles/crop_news_block_192_144/public/2021-09/210917-1_prof.jpg?itok=DzUITt5D)
CityU scientists have discovered that the spreading direction of different liquids deposited on the same surface can be steered, a challenge that had remained unsolved for over two centuries.
![2. Prof Sun Dong elected as a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts](/sites/g/files/asqsls3821/files/styles/crop_news_block_192_144/public/2021-08/20210826-1_Sun.jpg?itok=ymrDX7Px)
Professor Sun Dong, Chair Professor and Head of the Department Biomedical Engineering at CityU, has been elected a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Technical and Environmental Sciences class.
![Breakthrough in battling Triple-Negative Breast Cancer](/sites/g/files/asqsls3821/files/styles/crop_news_block_192_144/public/2021-05/210518-1_gene.jpg?itok=MN6pjks8)
CityU biologists discover super-enhancers that switch on Triple-Negative Breast Cancer genes.