HKUST 2008-2009 Annual Report
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研究
Research and Development
Research Funding
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A collaborative project entitled “Protein trafficking:
mechanism and diseases” was awarded a $5 million
Collaborative Research Grant by the Hong Kong
Research Grant Council. Dr Jun Xia is the principal
investigator for this project.
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Prof Zongjin Li was awarded RMB$30 million as chief
scientist of a 5-year project entitled Basic Research
on Environmentally Friendly Contemporary Concrete
under China’s National Basic Research Program.
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Prof Gary Chan’s ITF project “FastMesh: a proxy-based
peer-to-peer streaming protocol for scalable IPTV
services” was awarded $1.2 million.
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Prof Cheung Shing-Chi’s project “RFID benchmarking
methodology, report and tool support” was awarded
$10 million by Hong Kong R&D Centre on Logistics &
Supply Chain Management (LSCM).
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Prof James Lee was awarded a two-year R01 grant
from the National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development for approximately US$840,000 for a
project on social science data dissemination.
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Prof Xiaogang Wu, together with a group of other
social scientists, was awarded a Hong Kong Strategic
Public Policy Research Grant (2009-2014). The primary
purpose of this project is to establish a household
panel survey for data collection at both household and
individual levels to track social and economic changes
in Hong Kong and their impact on individuals’ lives.
HKUST excelled in the competitive bidding exercise for
the one-off Special Equipment Grant (SEG) announced
on 31 July 2008. With a high success rate of 80%, eight
out of the 10 proposals submitted by the University were
granted funding, totaling $61.9 million, representing
30.9% of the total funding and the highest amount
awarded to a single tertiary institution in Hong Kong.
In the RGC General Research Fund program announced
on 30 June 2009, HKUST researchers were awarded
$96.9 million — 18.7% of the total amount awarded
to Hong Kong’s tertiary institutions. In this annual
internationally peer-reviewed competition, HKUST
can claim:
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the highest success rate (47%)
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the highest funding per eligible faculty ($227,000)
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the highest participation rate (30.3% of eligible faculty
were funded)
