The world is full of chirality. Chirality is a fundamental symmetry property in molecules. Chirality has already been recognized as one of the most important consideration in drug discovery, since chiral molecules can turn out to be effective in one of the forms only while the other form does not show any positive results. The effect of chiral molecule to cosmetic science is still underdeveloped. We will discuss what is chirality and how does it affect drugs and skincare products.

Hong Kong government has set an ambitious goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2050, and a critical strategy in its overall planning is to increase the deployment of renewable solar energy. In this talk, the speaker will discuss how we can rely on technological innovation to tackle this grand challenge; particularly, we have identified a new generation of printable, flexible, transparent, and colour-tunable solar cells as the most prominent photovoltaic technology to promote solar energy deployment in Hong Kong. Such a new generation solar cell technology can be integrated as tinted solar windows, façades, or curtains with buildings to generate significantly more solar electricity in an urban city, which usually has limited lands and rooftops for installing conventional silicon solar panels.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hong Kong quickly became a hub for quality COVID-19 vaccine research. Using big data of territory-wide electronic medical records from the Department of Health and the Hospital Authority of Hong Kong, our research team has investigated the effectiveness and safety of two COVID-19 vaccines, namely Biontech and Sinovac vaccines. In this talk, the speakers will introduce the basic concepts behind big data research and the study designs for conducting big data research, present the completed and ongoing research on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, and explain how big data research can contribute to healthcare development in Hong Kong.

Can we model how people make every-day decisions? Well, we have been trying since the 1700s and the research continues today. In this interactive lecture, we will test the rationality of your decision making and see how the surprising results matter to technologies like AI and Machine Learning.

Stroke is currently the second most common cause of death globally and affects one in four adults. About a third of stroke survivors have significant disability and one in five will have cognitive impairment. In this interactive lecture, the speaker will illustrate what happens to the brain during a stroke. The causes, symptoms, investigations, treatment and rehabilitation of strokes will also be discussed.

Everyone experiences emotions. We find strong emotions capture our attention. But what is emotion? What do scientists know about how emotion affects our attention? How does attention affect our emotion? How does emotion and attention work together to influence our mental wellbeing? In this session, we will cover foundational knowledge about emotion. Psychological, physiological and neural factors will be discussed. We will also look at how emotion and attention affect each other, and together play a role in our mental health. During this session, the audience may be invited to participate in activities.

Cancer is one of the most leading causes of death worldwide. Cancer incidence will continue to rise in the next decades. Cancer represents the major health threat to our society. Many cancer patients are not suitable for surgeries, leaving chemo-therapies, radio-therapies, and targeted-therapies as the only treatment options. All these options aim to target cancer cells to limit their uncontrollable growth. However, these treatments at the same time are damaging normal cells, resulting in severe side effects in cancer patients. Recently, immunotherapies, which aim to activate the immune system to combat cancer cells, have emerged as the mainstream cancer treatment. The clinical success of immunotherapies is unprecedented which significantly contributes to its popularity. This lecture will focus on the introduction of our immune system and its importance in fighting cancer, the basic principles of different kinds of anti-cancer immunotherapies, their advantages and disadvantages, the preclinical and clinical evidence that shows the power of immunotherapies, and the future drug innovations and directions of immunotherapies as cancer treatments.

COVID-19 has been raging around the world for 3 years, causing more than 6 million deaths and nearly 700 million people being infected. Facing the Era of Long COVID, fatigue, persistent cough, shortness of breath, poor memory, difficulty sleeping, muscle pain, and even loss of sense of taste and smell, what is the concept from the point of view of Chinese medicine, and how does Chinese medicine treat it?

Most people believe that RA is an incurable disease. However, because this disease is so frequent, we must understand it and try to find effective treatment and prevention. This is a fact that RA can be treated not only to reduce the symptoms and duration of the disease but also to prevent and delay the related complications and improve the quality of life. Even for patients with severe diseases, do not give up lightly. Several treatments of traditional Chinese medicine can still play a role in their complications.

In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of the most popular research topics and its technology has gradually been applied to the aspects of daily communication, transportation, medical care, finance and media. This seminar will talk about how AI affects our everyday life. There will also be a demonstration session, where participants can learn about the basic applications of AI Deep Learning.

It is believed that you have heard a popular mobile game "Pokémon GO", which is an application example of Augmented Reality (AR) technology. AR is an interactive experience of a real world with addition of virtual objects, such as characters, sounds, or other computer-created objects. At present, AR has been widely applied in product design in various fields, such as fashion, automobiles, aircraft, medicine, construction, etc., in order to promote product development and marketing.

With the availability of wearable devices, it is easy to capture people's physical activity. Our team has designed a novel deep learning model which is trained from movement data of healthy subjects and subjects with Alzheimer's Disease. It uses a time-aware attention mechanism to model the effect of circadian rhythms. Our model takes the movement data of a subject as input, and generates meaningful analysis and visualization of his/her daily behavior patterns (e.g., sleeping, exercising, light activity, etc.), and provides a graphical indication of potential dementia risk.

Make fiction become reality via Science 1. Understand technologies in daily life from science fiction; 2. Create fiction base on science & technologies; 3. Improve the world by science & imagination.

Gastrointestinal diseases are one of the most significant health concerns in Hong Kong which can affect any section of the gastrointestinal tract from the oesophagus to the anus and various organs as liver, gallbladder, and pancreas. The city’s hectic lifestyle, high-stress environment, and unhealthy eating habits have contributed to a rise in different digestive diseases and thus created medical and economic burdens to the society. Besides encouragement to maintain good hygiene and adopt a healthy lifestyle, prevention and early treatment are substantial due to high variability of gastrointestinal diseases with corresponding discomforts. This seminar will focus on the prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases based on both Western and Chinese medicine perspectives.

The world is full of chirality. Chirality is a fundamental symmetry property in molecules. Chirality has already been recognized as one of the most important consideration in drug discovery, since chiral molecules can turn out to be effective in one of the forms only while the other form does not show any positive results. The effect of chiral molecule to cosmetic science is still underdeveloped. We will discuss what is chirality and how does it affect drugs and skincare products.

Hong Kong government has set an ambitious goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2050, and a critical strategy in its overall planning is to increase the deployment of renewable solar energy. In this talk, the speaker will discuss how we can rely on technological innovation to tackle this grand challenge; particularly, we have identified a new generation of printable, flexible, transparent, and colour-tunable solar cells as the most prominent photovoltaic technology to promote solar energy deployment in Hong Kong. Such a new generation solar cell technology can be integrated as tinted solar windows, façades, or curtains with buildings to generate significantly more solar electricity in an urban city, which usually has limited lands and rooftops for installing conventional silicon solar panels.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hong Kong quickly became a hub for quality COVID-19 vaccine research. Using big data of territory-wide electronic medical records from the Department of Health and the Hospital Authority of Hong Kong, our research team has investigated the effectiveness and safety of two COVID-19 vaccines, namely Biontech and Sinovac vaccines. In this talk, the speakers will introduce the basic concepts behind big data research and the study designs for conducting big data research, present the completed and ongoing research on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, and explain how big data research can contribute to healthcare development in Hong Kong.

Can we model how people make every-day decisions? Well, we have been trying since the 1700s and the research continues today. In this interactive lecture, we will test the rationality of your decision making and see how the surprising results matter to technologies like AI and Machine Learning.