Press Releases and Stories

2025

Press Releases
Partnership, University Development, Innovation, Biomedical Science
Opening of HKUST Shanghai Center in Xuhui District

2022

Press Releases
Alzheimer's, Neuroscience, Biomedical Science, Life Science
HKUST Scientists Identify an Innovative Strategy Targeting a Blood Protein for Therapeutic Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease
An international research team led by HKUST has identified a blood protein that plays a key role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease.

2021

Press Releases
Neuroscience, Alzheimer's, Biomedical Science, Biomedical Engineering
HKUST Scientists Develop Genome-editing Strategy for Potential Alzheimer’s Disease Therapy
A novel brain-wide genome-editing technology offers immense potential to be translated as a novel long-acting therapeutic treatment for Alzheimer’s patients.
Press Releases
Neuroscience, Biomedical Science, Alzheimer's
HKUST Scientists Develop Simple Blood Test for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease
A research team led by HKUST's VPRD Prof. Nancy IP has developed a simple yet highly effective Alzheimer’s blood test from Chinese patient data for the first time.
Press Releases
Biomedical Science, Genetics, Life Science, Biomedical Engineering
HKUST-Beijing Tiantan Hospital Researchers Discover a New Cause for the Cerebral Cavernous Malformation
HKUST researchers have uncovered a new gene mutation responsible for a brain vascular disorder which inflicted about 10~30 million people in the world.

2020

News
Entrepreneurship, Research, Life Science, Health, Biomedical Science
Strengthen Your Brain with Chinese Herbs to Prevent Alzheimer’s
Seeing how Alzheimer’s disease has turned her beloved aunt from a sprightly 75-year-old to a confusing mind, Dr. Fanny IP Chui-Fun says the experience is frustrating for her as a neuroscientist because the disease remains incurable.
News
Research, Innovation, HIV, Biomedical Science
New Method Identifies Adaptive Mutations in Complex Evolving Populations
A research team co-led by a scientist at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed a method to study how HIV mutates to escape the immune system in multiple patients, which could inform HIV vaccine design.
Press Releases
Cell Biology, Research, Biomedical Science, Life Science
Researchers Uncover Novel Molecular Mechanism
Researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) discovered a novel molecular mechanism that controls the delivery of a key protein in planar cell polarity (PCP) – an important process in our body that regulates cell growth and cell movement, providing useful guidance o