Press Releases and Stories

2020

News
Recognition, Geotechnical Engineering, Scientific Computation, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering
Geotechnical and Mobile Computing Innovators Elected as Fellows of Royal Academy of Engineering
Prof. Charles NG Wang-Wai (left) and Prof. HUI Pan (right) were elected as the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Fellow and International Fellow respectively.
Press Releases
Cancer Genomics, Life Science, Scientific Computation, Discovery
HKUST Researchers Uncover Chemo-resistance Mechanism in Glioma Patients
An international research team co-led by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, and the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) has discovered a mechanism that explains why patients of gliomas – a common and aggressive type of brain tum
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Data Analytics, Interdisciplinary, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Scientific Computation
HKUST Scientists Shed Light on COVID-19 Vaccine Development
A team of scientists at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has recently identified a set of potential vaccine targets which could be helpful for the development of a vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus – the cause of a novel pneumonia (COVID-19) outbreak which has s

2019

Press Releases
Discovery, Research and Technology, Scientific Computation, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biochemistry
HKUST Scientists Discover How RNA Polymerase II Maintains Highly Accurate Gene Transcription with High-Performance Computing
Scientists from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have recently uncovered the mechanisms of how RNA polymerase II performs intrinsic cleavage reaction to proofread RNA transcriptions, shedding light on how mis-regulation of accurate transcription can lead to diseases incl