Three projects supervised under Professor Michael Chan, Associate Professor, Division of Public Health Laboratory Sciences and Centre for Immunology & Infection (C2i) received prestigious awards at the 49th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva for their breakthrough projects revolutionizing patient care and informing public health policies in the field of infectious and respiratory diseases.

The awards are:

• Gold medal - Human alveolar epithelial-capillary model for lung injury assessment and drug screening
• Gold medal - Risk assessment platform for tropism and disease severity of respiratory viruses
• Silver medal - Personalized specific human respiratory organoids: revolutionizing drug screening

Team members include Professor Kenrie Hui, Assistant Professor; Dr Rachel Ching, Research Officer of the Division of Public Health Laboratory Sciences and C2i; as well as Dr Angel Ma of C2i.

More about their invention can be found here.

The School extends our heartfelt congratulations to Professor Chan, Professor Hui, Dr Ching and Dr Ma.

(From left) Professor Kenrie Hui, Professor Michael Chan, Mr Simon Muller, Senior Manager - Project & Public Relations,C2i, as well as Dr Rachel Ching

Professor Michael Chan and his team received prestigious awards at the 49th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva in April 2024