Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards (Hong Kong) 2023 - List of Funded Proposals
| Ref. No. | Project Title | Principal Investigator / University# | Project Duration (Month) |
Amount Awarded (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biology and Medicine | ||||
| HLCA/M-407/23 | Geometric Deep Learning on Radiomics for the Prediction of Brain Age, Cognitive Maintenance and Healthy Longevity | Prof Hanna LU / CUHK |
12 | 329,960 |
| HLCA/M-604/23 | A multi-modal approach to decipher cellular resilience for improving healthspan | Prof Hiu Tung Tom CHEUNG / HKUST |
12 | 389,000 |
| HLCA/M-701/23 | Reverse inflammaging by targeting nuclear PD-L1 in inflammatory macrophages | Dr Rio SUGIMURA / HKU |
12 | 389,000 |
| HLCA/M-703/23 | Enabling the effective and safe epigenetic rejuvenation with re-engineered transcription factors | Dr Ralf JAUCH / HKU |
12 | 389,000 |
| HLCA/M-715/23 | Leveraging brown adipose tissue to combat elderly stroke | Dr Leiluo GENG / HKU |
12 | 389,000 |
| Engineering | ||||
| HLCA/E-107/23 | An immune aging monitor based on the dynamics of TCR repertoire and machine learning | Dr Shuaicheng LI / CityU |
12 | 388,500 |
| HLCA/E-301/23 | AI-Powered Multimodal Patient Progressive Profiles for Personalized Depression Treatment by Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation | Prof Haoran XIE / LU |
12 | 389,000 |
| HLCA/E-712/23 | An Integrated Graph Convolutional Network Multimodal Platform (GCN-MP) for Early Detection and Prediction of Late Onset Alzheimer’s Disease | Prof Victor On-kwok LI / HKU |
12 | 389,000 |
| Humanities & Social Sciences | ||||
| HLCA/H-106/23 | Social prescribing of virtual reality urban greenness with peer support model to promote mental health among aging population: an effectiveness and feasibility study | Dr Shiyu LU / CityU |
12 | 388,978 |
| HLCA/H-508/23 | A Cave Automatic Virtual Therapeutic Garden for Residential Care Homes for the Elderly | Dr Hiu Kwan YUNG / PolyU |
12 | 389,000 |
# CityU: City University of Hong Kong
LU: Lingnan University
CUHK: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
PolyU: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
HKUST: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
HKU: The University of Hong Kong