As the coming Asian Games spotlight athletic performance, CUHK researchers are pursuing a broader goal: preserving mobility throughout life. Through CNRM’s international collaboration, the University is advancing scalable, allogeneic mesenchymal stromal cell therapy for knee osteoarthritis. The work links global manufacturing expertise with CUHK research to bring regenerative medicine closer to clinical application and wider patient benefit for people worldwide.

Certain traumas, diseases or ageing problems cause damage to human tissues and bodies, but regenerative medicine brings hope to patients by repairing or regenerating them. Professor Rocky S. TUAN, Vice-Chancellor and President of CUHK has spent years of intensive effort in the field of skeletal tissue engineering and regeneration. His achievement has recently been recognised by the TERMIS with an International Fellowship (FTERM); he is the first Hong Kong scholar to be given the honour.

Doing something simple is how a CUHK researcher describes finding an essential mechanism to regulate alterations in neuron types that can harm the brain and cause neurological diseases. “By simply adjusting the strength of certain extrinsic signaling cues……” he says, and there lies an important path into stem cell biology.