Collaborative Research Fund 2013/14 Funding Results

Equipment Proposal

Proposal No Coordinating Institution/Collaborating Institution(s) Proposal Title Amount
Awarded
(exclusive of on-costs)
PolyU11/CRF/13E
PolyU/CityU, HKU Acquisition of a State-of-the-art Single Crystal X-ray Diffractometer
$2,062,500
PolyU12/CRF/13E
PolyU/CityU, CUHK, HKUST, HKU A Unique Multi-Functions Large-Scale Physical Model Testing Facility for Study of the Impact of Debris Flow on Flexible Barriers and Geo-Hazards in Hong Kong
$4,104,441


Group Research Proposals

Proposal No Coordinating Institution/Collaborating Institution(s) Proposal Title Amount
Awarded
(exclusive of on-costs)
CityU8/CRF/13G
CityU/HKBU, HKUST, HKU Cost Effective and Survivable Wide-area Topology of Telecommunication Cabling
$3,277,200
CityU9/CRF/13G
CityU/HKU Development of Cell Manipulation Tools for Probing Functional Mechanism of Hematopoietic Cells: Robotics, Optical tweezers, and Hematopoiesis
$5,937,000
CUHK1/CRF/13G
CUHK/HKUST Targeting RNA and Protein Toxicities of Polyglutamine Diseases Using Peptidylic Inhibitors
$7,044,220
CUHK4/CRF/13G
CUHK/HKUST, HKU Searching for New Physics with the Large Hadron Collider
$8,661,000
CUHK6/CRF/13G
CUHK/CityU Assistive Surgical Robots
$9,896,000
CUHK8/CRF/13G
CUHK/CityU, HKU, EdUHK Reading Development in Chinese and in English: Genetic and Neuroscience Correlates
$7,511,385
HKUST3/CRF/13G
HKUST/CUHK, HKU New Topological States in Cold Atom and Condensed Matter Physics Systems
$6,722,200
HKUST4/CRF/13G
HKUST/CUHK, HKU Research in Fundamental Physics: from the Large Hadron Collider to the Universe
$8,345,000
HKUST12/CRF/13G HKUST/CUHK Super-resolution imaging: revealing the molecular organization of subcellular organelles
$7,957,000
HKU2/CRF/13G
HKU Regulation of heterochromatin remodeling in DNA repair and aging
$6,900,000
HKU5/CRF/13G HKU/CityU, CUHK Mechanism of potentiating HIV antigen-specific CD8+ T cells
$7,984,380
HKU9/CRF/13G HKU/PolyU, HKUST Two-Dimensional Transistion-Metal Dichalcogenides - from Materials, Physics to Devices
$8,520,000