Our staff have recently received 11 research grants and donations with a total amount of around HKD40.28 million.   

• Sigma Nursing has recently named Prof. Helen CHAN as one of their 2024 International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame Inductees. Prof. Chan will be formally inducted at Sigma’s 35th International Nursing Research Congress Hall of Fame Special Session on 27 July 2024. 
• Our PhD graduate Dr. Oluwadamilare AKINGBADE received the 2024 Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) Congress scholarship from the Oncology Nursing Foundation.
• Ms. Lily WU , our beloved colleague, had been a pillar of editorial support for the School. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to her, as she was honoured with the 15-Year Long Service Award 2023.

• The School has recently announced that the following awardees will be honoured at the upcoming Scholarships and Awards Presentation Ceremony:
  • Dr. Kai Chow CHOI, Prof. Dorothy CHAN, Prof. Fiona TANG, Dr. Gigi LING, Dr. Ricky AHMAT, Dr. Cheryl YEUNG and Ms. Zoe KWOK will receive the Best Teacher Awards 2024 (Postgraduate Programmes).
  • A total of 122 scholarships and awards will be presented to our postgraduate students.
• The Faculty of Medicine, CUHK, has recently announced that the following awardees from our School will be honoured at the upcoming Teachers and Students Award Presentation Ceremony: 
  • Dr. Ricky AHMAT, Dr. Thomas LAM Chun Sing, Dr. Doris WONG and Ms. Silvia Theresa TONG will receive the Teacher of the Year Awards 2024 (Undergraduate Programmes).
  • Master of Nursing graduate Ms. Ching Han LEUNG will receive the Alumni Teaching Award.
  • A total of 292 scholarships and awards will be presented to our undergraduate students, with 248 of them offered by the School.

For our genetic study on structural variations (SV) in patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), optical mapping was performed on 25 samples for further analysis. By comparing with a control dataset comprising healthy human sequences and between the patient samples themselves, some potential SV targets were identified. Our next step is to thoroughly validate these potential targets to substantiate our findings. Meanwhile, a systematic review summarising results from similar studies conducted in China is underway. This review will lend more weight to supporting our own study.

For our collaborative brain-age study with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Dr. Manson Fong, a Co-PI from PolyU, delivered a presentation titled "Brain age estimation with convolutional neural networks (CNN)" at PolyU’s RISA Symposium: Brain Ageing, Imaging and Stimulation on 14 March 2024. The study involved training a brain-age model using CNN based on the IXI dataset (comprising about 600 T1 images collected in the UK), which was then applied to locally collected data. It is envisaged that the model’s performance will be enhanced as more training data will be solicited from multiple sources.

At this year’s Student Ambassador (SA) Induction Ceremony, current SAs warmly welcomed 11 newly recruited SAs from the Bachelor of Nursing (BNurs) and Master of Nursing Science (Pre-registration) (MNSP) Programmes. Gathering together, they shared their enthusiasm and commitment to facilitating upcoming activities to promote the School and our nursing profession.

An alumni sharing session was held to support the career planning of our MNSP final-year students, during which 7 alumni from various hospitals and specialties shared practical information and insights regarding job prospects in local nursing and health care. 
 

This year’s photo days of Chung Chi College, Shaw College, Lee Woo Sing College, New Asia College and United College brought together our Class of 2024 BNurs graduates to take joy-filled photos with their teachers in celebration of their graduation.