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Professor Sheung-tat Fan, Chair Professor of the Department of Surgery, and his liver transplant team comprised of Professor Chung-man Lo, Professor Chi-leung Liu and Dr See-ching Chan, have won the first-class award for the category of State Scientific and Technology Progress Award (SSTPA). This is the first time that an entry from Hong Kong is conferred a first-class award under SSTAs. Professor Vivian Wing-Wah Yam, Chair Professor of the Department of Chemistry, has been honoured with the second-class award for the category of State Natural Science Award (SNSA).
Professor Fan and his team's winning project, entitled 'Adult-to-adult Right Lobe Live Donor Liver Transplantation', has been recognised as a breakthrough in the relevant field. Since 1996, Professor Fan and his team have striven to refine the surgical technique of live donor liver transplantation (LDLT) by innovating and developing the procedure of right lobe liver graft. Since then, right lobe LDLT has been widely adopted by numerous liver transplant centres around the world. Professor Fan himself was elected by the Chinese Academy of Engineering as an academician under the category of medicine and pharmacy last December.
'Molecular Design and Luminescence Studies of Transition Metal Complexes with Alkynyl- and Chalcogen-Containing Ligands', a research project undertaken by Professor Vivian Wing-Wah Yam, was chosen out of over 135 entries completed in the category of natural science this year. In 2001, Professor Yam was the youngest scientist to be elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the age of 38. Last year, she was awarded a Centenary Lectureship by the United Kingdom's Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in recognition of her research contributions to inorganic chemistry. She is the first Chinese academic to be offered such an endowed lectureship by RSC.
The two award recipients, together with the transplant team led by Professor Fan and a couple whom has undergone the transplant before, will meet with and speak to the members of media in the press conference which will be held on Wednesday, January 11, at 2:00pm, at Convocation Room, Room 218, Main Building, The University of Hong Kong.
For enquiries, please contact Elsie Leung of HKU's External Relations Office at tel. 2859 2600.
HKU Scholars Won Prestigious National Award
09 Jan 2006
The National Office of Science and Technology Awards held its 2005 State Science and Technology Awards (SSTAs) prize presentation ceremony in Beijing earlier today (January 9), in which two scholars from the University of Hong Kong were awarded the first-class and second-class awards respectively.
Professor Sheung-tat Fan, Chair Professor of the Department of Surgery, and his liver transplant team comprised of Professor Chung-man Lo, Professor Chi-leung Liu and Dr See-ching Chan, have won the first-class award for the category of State Scientific and Technology Progress Award (SSTPA). This is the first time that an entry from Hong Kong is conferred a first-class award under SSTAs. Professor Vivian Wing-Wah Yam, Chair Professor of the Department of Chemistry, has been honoured with the second-class award for the category of State Natural Science Award (SNSA).
Professor Fan and his team's winning project, entitled 'Adult-to-adult Right Lobe Live Donor Liver Transplantation', has been recognised as a breakthrough in the relevant field. Since 1996, Professor Fan and his team have striven to refine the surgical technique of live donor liver transplantation (LDLT) by innovating and developing the procedure of right lobe liver graft. Since then, right lobe LDLT has been widely adopted by numerous liver transplant centres around the world. Professor Fan himself was elected by the Chinese Academy of Engineering as an academician under the category of medicine and pharmacy last December.
'Molecular Design and Luminescence Studies of Transition Metal Complexes with Alkynyl- and Chalcogen-Containing Ligands', a research project undertaken by Professor Vivian Wing-Wah Yam, was chosen out of over 135 entries completed in the category of natural science this year. In 2001, Professor Yam was the youngest scientist to be elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the age of 38. Last year, she was awarded a Centenary Lectureship by the United Kingdom's Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in recognition of her research contributions to inorganic chemistry. She is the first Chinese academic to be offered such an endowed lectureship by RSC.
The two award recipients, together with the transplant team led by Professor Fan and a couple whom has undergone the transplant before, will meet with and speak to the members of media in the press conference which will be held on Wednesday, January 11, at 2:00pm, at Convocation Room, Room 218, Main Building, The University of Hong Kong.
For enquiries, please contact Elsie Leung of HKU's External Relations Office at tel. 2859 2600.
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