PolyU has been awarded HK$47 million of funding in total from the Research Grants Council in the latest rounds of its funding schemes. The University ranked first among local institutions in terms of the RGC’s support to strengthen its state-of-the-art research facilities.

The RGC schemes include the Research Impact Fund (RIF), the Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) and the second round of CRF’s COVID-19 and Novel Infectious Diseases (NIR) Research Exercise.

“This year we ranked first in the CRF Research Equipment Grants in terms of the number of projects supported,” said Professor Christopher Chao, Vice President (Research and Innovation). “We are grateful to get these encouraging results to support our colleagues to further their research endeavours.”

“PolyU’s core research facilities support a wide range of research activities. It is the University’s strategy to strengthen these facilities to support more interdisciplinary research. They also help our researchers explore more innovative solutions to various societal challenges,” Professor Chao said.

The three CRF funded equipment projects include state-of-the-art facilities for Big Data analytics, intravital imaging and optogenetic studies, and molecular and nano functional materials research.

For details of other impactful RGC funded PolyU research, please visit here.