KE Stories

Reproducing Innovation

This study provides an innovative underlying biomedical technology that has the potential to transform medical diagnostics through enabling repeated or even continuous measurement of biomolecules as individuals go about their normal day.

Gerontechnology Innovations at HKU

Ageing is a well-recognised global challenge. Researchers at The University of Hong Kong are conducting cutting-edge research in gerontechnology to meet the challenges.

Prevention of Ageing-associated Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease and Glaucoma with a Wolfberry Extract

A research team in the HKU School of Biomedical Sciences has found that wolfberry not only can protect the retinal ganglion cells on the retina against glaucoma, but also can inhibit neuronal apoptosis to prevent neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease.

A Step Up for Little People

Patients with rare bone diseases that cause extremely short stature used to struggle alone with the pressure of being different, whether it was losing out on school places or jobs or navigating facilities that were outsized for their needs. A project supported by the KE Fund is helping to ease their path by providing support for patients and their families and promoting greater acceptance by society.

A Matter of Life and Death

The Medical Faculty believes direct examination of bodies is the best way to teach students about anatomy, and thus produce well-trained doctors for Hong Kong. However, as society has prospered over the decades, a grim but very real problem has arisen: a shortage of bodies for medical study and training. Until recently, donation had provided an insufficient number of cadavers to meet the needs of the medical programme.