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Research Grant

Department funded projects

1. RGC General Research Fund (GRF) and RGC Early Career Scheme (ECS)

Year

Principal Investigator

Project Title

Amount awarded (HKD)

2026/27

Professor Ming-Yen Ng

Multicentre International Cardiac Magnetic Resonance 4D flow, Atrial Size and Atrial Strain, Assessment of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (MIDAS-HFpEF)

1,287,564

2025/26

Professor Jianpan Huang

Artificial intelligence-enhanced molecular MRI for early detection and differentiation of mild cognitive impairment

770,817

2023/24

Dr. Peng Cao

Integrated Heteronuclear MRI System for Metabolic Imaging Using a Novel Multiple-coil-gradient/radiofrequency(RF)-coil Design

995,293

2021/22

Dr. Hing Chiu Charles Chang

Development of Advanced Motion-Resolved 4D Abdominal Diffusion-Weighted Imaging Technique

1,095,732

2020/21

Dr. Hing Chiu Charles Chang

Development of Robust and Motion-immune 3D Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technique for High-resolution Brain Connectome Mapping in Challenging Populations

996,285

2018/19

Dr. Varut Vardhanabhuti

Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting for the assessment of clinically significant prostate cancer

825,027

2017/18

Dr. Hing Chiu Charles Chang

Time-efficient and high-resolution three-dimensional diffusion magnetic resonance imaging on clinical scanner

780,300

2016/17

Dr. Elaine Yuen-Phin Lee

Characterising and quantifying intratumour heterogeneity in cervical cancer with intravoxel incoherent motion diffusion-weighted MRI

570,115

2016/17

Dr. Hing Chiu Charles Chang

Advanced technical development for free-breathing liver diffusion-weighted Propeller echo-planar imaging

660,509

2015/16

Dr. Henry Ka Fung Mak

Neurochemical basis of the change in attention control and memory encoding in normal aging

417,221
 (data collected from HKU summary and UGC enquiry)

 

 

2. Health and Medical Research Fund (HRMF)

Year

Principal Investigator

Project Title

Amount awarded (HKD)

2024

Professor Eva Yi Wah Cheung

MR brain functional connectivity (FC) and cerebral blood flow (CBF) as monitoring biomarkers for mild cognitive impaired (MCI) patients undergoing anti-amyloid treatment

498,000

2022

Dr. Elaine Yuen-Phin Lee

Imaging-based radiomics in predicting platinum sensitivity in epithelial ovarian carcinoma

1,422,600

2022

Professor Ming-yen Ng

Randomised Controlled Trial of Vericiguat in Patients with Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction causing Stable Chest Pain

1,499,984

2020

Dr. Peng Cao

Quantitative myelin assessment for multiple sclerosis using magnetic resonance fingerprinting

100,000

2020

Professor Kyongtae Bae

Deep learning-based muscle segmentation for reproducible fat and water quantification using magnetic resonance imaging – applications to normal ageing and muscular dystrophy

1,472,724

2019

Dr. Elaine Yuen-Phin Lee

Predictive value of CT texture analysis in indeterminate ovarian mass- a multi-centre validation study

996,760

2019

Professor Ming-yen Ng

Clinical Significance of Subclinical Myocardial Involvement in Recovered COVID-19 Patients using Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

1,499,640

2018

Dr. Peng Cao

Artificial Intelligence for Prostate Cancer Detection and Grading in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

1,397,440

2017

Dr. Elaine Yuen-Phin Lee

Monitoring treatment response in advanced ovarian cancer by PET-CT following neo-adjuvant chemotherapy

1,381,916

2017

Professor Ming-yen Ng

Stress Cardiac Magnetic Resonance of Asymptomatic Type 2 Diabetics with Cardiovascular High Risk to measure Empagliflozin impact on Myocardial Blood Flow (CATCH-EM)

1,457,257

2016

Professor Ming-yen Ng

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Assessment of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction

1,193,724

2014

Dr. Elaine Yuen-Phin Lee

Translating functional tumour volume and biology of peritoneal carcinomatosis to identify suitable candidate for cytoreductive surgery in ovarian carcinoma

782,592
 (data collected from Health Bureau enquiry)