HKU triumphed at the 48th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, winning a total of 19 awards, including two special grand prizes Invention & Innovation CAI Award (China Delegation), and Prize of the Delegation of Malaysia. Among the 19 awards, our department had bagged 3 of them.
Below is the awardees’ list:
Invention title: Programmable Cell Niche Engineering Platform
Faculty member: Professor Barbara Chan, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Award: Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury
Invention title: DipμChip – Capillary Microfluidic Platform for Point-of-care Diagnostics
Faculty members: Professor Anderson H.C. Shum and Dr Hassan Sammer Ui, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Award: Gold Medal
Invention title: Ultra-thin Flexible Robotic Instruments for Endoluminal Surgery
Faculty member: Dr Ka-Wai Kwok, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Award: Silver Medal
