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  • May 2021

    Congratulations on Peter for starting his own research group as a Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong!

  • April 2021

    Congratulations on Ilona, Siqin, Wei and Peter for their work on the first application of Generalized Master Equation model to a complex functional conformational change that was recently published on PNAS. Role of Bacterial RNA …

  • Jan 2021

    Congratulations on Xuhui for winning the Pople Medal from the Asia-Pacific Association of Theoretical & Computational Chemists in 2021!

  • Oct 2020

    Congratulations on Chu Li for winning the Bester Physical Chemistry Poster Award in the 27th Symposium on Chemistry Postgraduate Research in Hong Kong! Congratulations on Xuhui for winning the prestigious 16th China Youth Science and …

  • July 2020

    Congratulations on Ilona for winning the 2020 Chan Tak Kei & Wong Kwai Ying Bioengineering Student Research Award!

  • April 2020

    Together with our collaborators, we have elucidated inhibition mechanisms of Remdesivir (a promising COVID-19 drug) on SARS-CoV-2 viral replication! Manuscript available at bioAxiv.

  • Jan 2020

    Congs on Xuhui for winning a Collaborative Research Fund from Hong Kong Research Grant Council to establish an X-GPU computer cluster (7.4 million HK dollars) for molecular dynamics and genomics research!

  • Nov 2019

    Congs on Jordy, Lizhe & others for their work on developing a deep learning framework to predict protein-RNA interactions published on Nature Communications (Link to the article)! This is in collaboration with Prof. Xin Gao’s …

  • Aug 2019

    We are co-organizing the Theoretical and Computational Biology Workshop at the South Bay Interdisciplinary Science Center in the Greater Bay Area!

  • July 2019

    Congs on Xuhui for being promoted to be Full Professor from July 1, 2019!

  • July 2019

    We are co-organizing the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)-BHKAEC Joint Symposium on Chemistry for New Frontiers , Hong Kong, July 2019

  • July 2019

    Congratulations on Ilona for winning the Carl Storm International Diversity Fellowship from GRC!

  • Aug 2019

    Welcome the new graduate students: Marco (Hong Kong Ph.D Fellowship), Jacquline (Hong Kong Ph.D Fellowship), Jimmy, Mingyi, Congmin and Wenqi! Farewell to Wei and Jinping. Jinping took an Associate Professor Position at Sun Yat-Sen University, …

  • Feb 2019

    Congs on Carmen & others for their work on elucidating how RNA polymerase cleaves mis-matched nucleotides to maintain high transcription accuracy published in Nature Catalysis! This work has been highlighted by Natue, Phys.org, Technology Networks, …

  • Jan 2019

    Congs on Jinping & others for their work on elucidating key differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic Argonaute enzyme on cleaving DNAs published in PNAS (Link to the article)! See a highlighted of this work by …

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