Professor Hua Zhang, Herman Hu Chair Professor of Nanomaterials in the Department of Chemistry, has been elected Foreign Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences in recognition of his highly interdisciplinary research.

A pioneering approach to fighting cancer has revealed as much as a two-third reduction in tumour size and weight in laboratory tests using an anti-cancer chemical compound developed by Dr. Guangyu Zhu, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, and his team at City University of Hong Kong (CityU).

Five faculty members from the College of Science have been listed as the “Highly Cited Researchers” by Clarivate Analytics for 2019 in respective categories of Chemistry, Cross-Field, Engineering and Materials Science. Congratulations for their exceptional achievements!

Ms. Christelle Fung Ka Yee, a third year student from the Department of Chemistry, was awarded the Young Investigator Poster Prize in the Bosch Institute Annual Scientific Meeting, which was held at the University of Sydney on 1 August 2019.

Chair Professor István T. Horváth of the Department of Chemistry at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has been elected External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary for his significant contributions to catalysis and green chemistry.

Researchers from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) received four awards, including two Gold Medals and two Silver Medals at the 47th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, held in Switzerland.