CUHK Medicine Professor Nathalie Wong’s team has discovered a first of its kind liver cancer biomarkers that reside on the cell surface membrane, enabling these cancer cells to be identified through the "name tag". The team plans to translate this breakthrough into clinical trials, using CAR-T cell therapy to achieve optimal therapeutic outcomes.

The robotic platform of Professor Kwok Ka-wai, Professor at CUHK’s Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, provides new level of agility in non-invasive cancer surgery. He collaborated with Professor Jason Chan from the Faculty of Medicine to further develop the robotic system’s capacities to help with gastrointestinal surgeries.

For many years, Lu Yi-chun, a professor in CUHK’s Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, has toiled away on a solution that she hopes will enhance the safety of battery storage but still be cost-effective. Her work on polysulfide flow batteries has long garnered acclaim, and now she is taking her mission to the next level.

Robotic arms take digestive cancer operations to new heights in Professor Philip Chiu's innovation. The robotic arms, developed by his team jointly with CUHK’s Faculty of Engineering, mimic the dexterity of a surgeon’s hands – one arm holds tissue aside with its micro-grippers while the other wields micro-blades to excise with accuracy.

As the digital world grows ever more information-hungry, Professor Tsang Hon-ki’s research on silicon photonics has proven to be a serendipitous career choice. His research team’s project is chosen for the Hong Kong government’s inaugural Research, Academic and Industry Sectors One-plus (RAISe+) Scheme, which helps universities transform and commercialise their research and development outcomes.