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RISUD Member Awarded Funding in Second Round One-off CRF COVID-19 and NIR Research Exercises

6 Jan 2022


In the second round one-off CRF COVID-19 and Novel Infectious Diseases (NIR) Research Exercises, the RGC received a total of 115 applications. Out of the 34 full proposals received, 20 were selected for interview.  Finally, 16 proposals were supported by the RGC with a total amount of $92.3 million (exclusive on-costs), including 3 proposals supported for one-year seed money and exploratory funding amounting to $6.7 million in total.

 

PolyU submitted 22 preliminary proposals, 7 full proposals and 5 full proposals were shortlisted for interview in early December 2021.  Finally, 3 proposals are supported by the RGC with a total funding of $14,120,540, of which one of the Project Coordinators is Prof. GUO Hai, member of RISUD and professor of CEE.  The details are as follows:

 

Ref. No.

Name of PC

Proposal Title

RGC Amount Awarded

C5024-21G

Prof. GUO Hai

Is the usual social distance sufficient to avoid airborne infection of expiratory droplets in indoor environments?

$4,703,090

 



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