Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards (Hong Kong) 2024 - List of Funded Proposals
| Ref. No. | Project Title | Principal Investigator / University# | Project Duration (Month) |
Amount Awarded (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biology and Medicine | ||||
| HLCA/M-205/24 | Brain Connectome of exceptional longevity: magnetic resonance imaging of (near) centenarians in Hong Kong | Dr Rongjun YU / HKBU |
12 | 389,000 |
| HLCA/M-408/24 | Targeting Nav1.8 via CRISPR-dCas9 for Treatment of Osteoarthritis | Prof Michael Tim-yun ONG / CUHK |
12 | 389,000 |
| HLCA/M-701/24 | Contrasting and Distinguishing Therapy-induced Senescence from Replicative Senescence and Oncogene-induced Senescence at the Molecular Level | Prof Gao ZHANG / HKU |
12 | 388,981 |
| HLCA/M-702/24 | Optimizing and Validating the Integrated Digit-in-Noise Test (iDIN) for Global Screening of Hearing and Cognitive Function | Prof Lena L.N. WONG / HKU |
12 | 388,668 |
| HLCA/M-708/24 | Targeting Age-Related Memory Impairment: Novel Molecular Chaperones for Enhanced Cognitive Function | Prof Ruben HERVAS MILLAN / HKU |
12 | 386,300 |
| Engineering | ||||
| HLCA/E-704/24 | Development of a Practical Elderly Fall Detection Solution via Non-Intrusive, Low-Cost Sensing | Prof Chenshu WU / HKU |
12 | 389,000 |
| HLCA/E-705/24 | A Large Language Model (LLM) driven Approach for Advancing Low cost Timely Speech based Late Onset Alzheimer's Disease (LOAD) Prediction | Prof On Kwok Victor LI / HKU |
12 | 389,000 |
| Humanities & Social Sciences | ||||
| HLCA/H-402/24 | Tales Weaver: An AI-Enhanced System to Foster Social Connectedness | Prof Helene Hoi-lam FUNG / CUHK |
12 | 388,908 |
| HLCA/H-509/24 | The Impact of 'Digital Strolling' on Depression and Quality of Life of People with Severe Mobility Impairment | Dr Yan LI / PolyU |
12 | 389,000 |
# HKBU: Hong Kong Baptist University
CUHK: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
PolyU: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
HKU: The University of Hong Kong