News and Update

• 2018-01-22

  Faculty of Engineering Holds Technology Forum to Explore the Future Possibilities of AI

  The Centre for Innovation and Technology (CINTEC), Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) held a technology forum titled ‘Artificial Intelligence (AI) Over Humans?’ today (18 January 2018), drawing over 500 technology leaders, experts, researchers and government officials to discuss the future possibilities ...
• 2017-12-06

  CUHK Team Develops a Rapid On-Site Method for Subtyping Influenza A virus and Wins Gold Award in iGEM Competition

  A genetic engineering team of 15 undergraduate students of Life Science and Biomedical Engineering has been awarded a Gold medal at the international Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) 2017 Giant Jamboree held in Boston, USA, for developing a novel rapid test for an influenza subtype. The winning project has extensive potential ...
• 2017-10-17

  Prof. Bian Liming Develops Slow Degrading Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels to Improve Joint-motion for Osteoarthritis

  Prof. Bian Liming, Department of Biomedical Engineering, has recently developed a new class of injectable and slow-degrading hyaluronic acid (HA) hydrogels for osteoarthritis (OA). OA is characterized by the progressive degradation of articular cartilage in limb joints such as knees and hips, which can lead to significant pain and ...
• 2017-07-07

  The Launch of the New Department of Biomedical Engineering

  The Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong is officially launched on 1 July 2017 and becomes the first biomedical engineering department in Hong Kong.  The aim of establishing a BME Department is to steer a coherent development of its core BME programmes at all levels from BEng, MSc to PhD; and ...