Friday, 13 January 2023
Four HKBU researchers have been awarded grants by the Collaborative Research Fund launched by the Research Grants Council. Two of them received the Collaborative Research Project Grant and the other two received the Young Collaborative Research Grant, securing a total of over HK$ 17.3 million in funding for their cross-disciplinary or cross-institutional projects in various fields.
The HKBU scholars who received the grants include:
Collaborative Research Project Grant
Professor Qiu Jianwen, Professor and Associate Head, Department of Biology
Proposal title: Genomic Insights into Environmental Adaptation and Diversity of Deep-sea Siboglinidae
Professor Xia Yiji, Chair Professor and Head, Department of Biology
Proposal title: NAD capping of RNA: mechanism and functions
Young Collaborative Research Grant
Dr Gao Meng, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Proposal title: Climate- and environment-conscious urban growth in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA): solutions and co-benefits
Dr Tian Liang, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
Proposal title: A novel TCM-based network pharmacology framework to human diseases and drug-disease relationship