3 The renaming of the Faculty of Science (FS) marks a milestone in our Faculty’s history. FS is composed of four academic departments, namely Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology (ABCT), Department of Applied Mathematics (AMA), Department of Applied Physics (AP), and the newly established Department of Food Science and Nutrition (FSN). We are a hub of great minds with 160 academic staff, over 360 research students and over 1,700 undergraduate and taught postgraduate students. Our Faculty is committed to conducting cutting-edge research and dedicated to engaging in innovative projects, and our core belief is to create positive impact with our innovations and creativity. Our Faculty brings a lot of technological innovations that can benefit the industry and the economy while address substantive issues encountered on public health in the recent years. For example, our colleagues developed a drug that starves cancer cells, which has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for clinical trials. To help formulate policies to prevent the spread of COVID-19, our colleagues developed mathematical models to understand the COVID-19 transmission pattern for effective control measure. Our colleagues’ retinainspired machine vision work was selected by the BeijingHong Kong Academic Exchange Centre as one of the “Top 10 Hong Kong Innovation and Technology News 2022”. We also have colleagues who employed traditional Chinese medicine for disease management, which had received the Scientific and Technological Progress Award and the Ministry of Education Award. All these latest research activities, achievements and collaborations with the industry in both scientific discoveries and technological innovations will be introduced to you in this brochure. Over the years, FS has established pioneering platforms for world-class research, including State Key Laboratory, CAS-PolyU Joint Laboratory, PolyU Academy for Interdisciplinary Research Centres and Research Institutes, and research centres at University, Faculty and Department levels. Our research strength is also evidenced by securing competitive funding from the various funding schemes including General Research Fund, Collaborative Research Fund, Research Impact Fund and National Natural Science Foundation of China/RGC Collaborative Research Scheme. Among them, our success rates of GRF in 2022/2023 and 2021/2022 are 41.51% and 44.09% respectively. We are also proud to present to you a strong research team which supports the Faculty’s development. Four of our senior academics were awarded the prestigious RGC Senior Research Fellowship and one prospective academic was awarded the RGC Research Fellowship, five academics are named in the list of Highly Cited Researchers 2022 by Clarivate Analytics for their significant research impact, and 21 colleagues are ranked as the World’s Top 2% most-cited scientists in 2022 by Stanford University. By summarising the latest research activities of our Faculty in this brochure, we look forward to building a strategic connection with different parties. Industrial partners could translate emerging technologies for commercialisation, while academic staff and entities could explore possible collaborations within or beyond the Faculty. PhD students and postdocs can identify the exciting research topics and your ideal supervisors. We hope that you will have a full picture of how our Faculty is fostering the pursuit of research excellence and technological advances after reading our stories. Prof. Wai-yeung Wong, Raymond Dean
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