To discover the impact of exposure to PFOS, a type of endocrine‑disrupting chemical that can be found easily in daily life, 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐖𝐎𝐍𝐆 and Dr Jamie WAN from the Department of Biology led a research team and conducted a series of studies.
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Prof Ken LEUNG from the Department of Chemistry, led a team with researchers from HKBU, HKU, Tsinghua SIGS, and PolyU, has revealed how unconventional, weak chemical forces act as critical interactions to hold together and stabilise intricate synthetic nanostructures.
In a recent research, 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐈𝐀𝐎 𝐏𝐚𝐧 from the Department of Biology led his research team, in collaboration with Professor MATSUDA Yudai at City University of Hong Kong, developed a computational tool to scan fungal DNA for such clues.
Professor ZHAO Zhongying from the Department of Biology and a team of biologists, physicists, and computer scientists from numerous institutions, including HKBU, Harvard, PKU, CityU, and BNU, developed an innovative AI-based tool called EmbSAM.
𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫 𝐙𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐆 𝐋𝐮 from the Department of Computer Science, and his research team developed TRAFICA, a novel open chromatin language model built on the Transformer-encoder architecture with Rotary Position Embedding.
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𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫 𝐆𝐔𝐎 𝐗𝐢𝐚𝐨𝐪𝐢𝐧𝐠 from the Department of Computer Science, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Oxford, developed IterMask3D, an AI model that learns what a “normal” brain scan looks like by studying thousands of healthy brain images.
To explore the potential of trace metals as biomarkers for NPC, a research team led by Prof Kelvin LEUNG (CHEM), in collaboration with Prof LUNG Hong Lok (CHEM) examined differences in blood plasma metal levels between healthy individuals and NPC patients.