Message from the Vice-Chancellor
Blossoming partnerships and flourishing future
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Scholarships pave way to social impact
Jarinyagon Chantawannnakul
finds fulfilment in creating
impact through innovation
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From plant to plate
Jiang Liwen uncovers
the mystery of vacuoles
for a food-secure future
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Sculpting the future at the finest scale
CUHK chip design software
aims for the global market
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Science as springboard for doing good
Allen Chan helps CUHK translate research into real-world impact

In 2001, as a freshly trained gastroenterologist poised for a secure, high-earning career, Professor Allen Chan Kwan-chee chose the road less travelled. He left clinical medicine to pursue a PhD under Professor Dennis Lo Yuk-ming at CUHK, inspired by the latter’s breakthrough in detecting foetal DNA in maternal blood.