Medical Faculty News v25i1

HKUSU Sports Association Presentation Day Applause Contrary to common stereotypes, the life of a medical student is not just about studying lecture notes and memorising medical knowledge. Students from the Medical Faculty actively participate in all kinds of sports events throughout the year for fun. At the Sports Association Presentation Day 2019, we were proud to recognise the remarkable performances and excellent results that our athletes from the Medical Faculty have achieved in inter- faculty competitions. We were pleased to announce that the Medical Faculty was crowned the Olma Challenge Rose Bowl Overall Champion in the women’s category and 1st Runner-up in the Men’s category, alongside awards in 14 other competitions. Kudos to all the athletes! Mr Chan Ka-lung （陳嘉龍） , Mr Chiu Ho- kwong （趙浩光） and Mr Yip Chun-wang （葉俊宏） , students of the School of Chinese Medicine, were awarded the Bronze Award - Public Welfare Entrepreneurship, China College Students’ Entrepreneurship Competition 2018 by Communist Youth League of China, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, China Association for Science and Technology, All-China Students’ Federation, The People’s Government of Zhejiang Province on November 1-3, 2018. Mr Chan Sik-kwan （陳錫坤） , MPhil candidate, Department of Clinical Oncology, was awarded the HANNN Healthy Ageing Award, Session Winner (Public Health) Award and Session Winner (Oncology 1) Award at the 26th International Student Congress of (Bio)Medical Sciences on June 4-6, 2019. Miss Chang Eun Seo , PhD candidate, Department of Medicine, was awarded the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship 2019/20 by the Research Grants Council on April 25, 2019. Miss Chen Hui （陳卉） , PhD candidate, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, was awarded the Young Investigator Award at the 13th International Symposium on Mechanisms Of VasoDilatation, and the 7th International Symposium on Endothelium-Dependent Hyperpolarization, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands on May 20-22, 2019; 2nd Prize for Outstanding Oral Presentation at The 22nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Institute of Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, in Hong Kong on November 10, 2018; and 3rd Prize of the Young Investigators’ Award at the 8th Scientific Meeting of the Asian Society for Vascular Biology, in Shanghai on November 4, 2018. Mr Vincent Cheng Ka-fai （鄭嘉輝） , PhD candidate, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, was awarded the ECTS East-Meets-West Research Award and the ECTS Academy-IBI New Investigator Seminar Award at The 46th Annual Congress of the European Calcified Tissue Society (ECTS) in Budapest, Hungary on May 11-14, 2019. 73 Medical Faculty News