Theme-based Research Scheme 2023/24 (Thirteenth Round) Funding Results
| Theme / Project Title | Participating UGC-funded Universities# |
Approved Budget* (HK$ million) |
Funding from the RGC* (HK$ million) |
|---|---|---|---|
Proposals with Five-Year Budget
|
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| Theme 1: Understanding Diseases and Disease Prevention | |||
| Single-Cell Multi-Omics Study of Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease: Narrowing the Gap Between Bench and Bedside |
CityU, CUHK, HKBU, HKU, HKUST
|
55.510 |
49.959
|
| Investigation of the Immunosuppressive Microenvironment in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma |
HKU
|
62.971 |
56.674 |
| Theme 2: Developing a Sustainable Environment | |||
| INTACT: Intelligent Tropical-storm-resilient System for Coastal Cities |
CityU, CUHK, HKU, HKUST, PolyU
|
48.293 |
43.464 |
| Digital Twin-empowered Landslide Emergency Risk Management |
CUHK, HKU, HKUST
|
73.945 |
62.071 |
| Theme 4: Advancing Emerging Research and Innovations Important to Hong Kong | |||
| High-performance Collaborative Edge Computing Enabling Smart City Applications: Framework and Methodologies |
CUHK, HKU, HKUST, PolyU
|
50.821
|
43.739
|
| Overcoming Technical Limits of Copper Hybrid Bonding for Advanced Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuits |
CityU, CUHK, HKU, HKUST
|
67.437
|
59.093
|
|
Total(6 projects)
|
358.977 |
315.000 |
|
Exploratory Proposals with One-Year Budget (to yield preliminary results)
|
|||
| Theme 1: Understanding Diseases and Disease Prevention | |||
| Dysregulated Host - Gut Microbiota Co-Metabolism in Metabolic Associated Fatty Liver Disease |
CUHK, HKBU, HKU, HKUST
|
- |
7.285 |
| Theme 3: Enhancing Hong Kong’s Strategic Position as a Regional and International Business Centre | |||
| Strengthening Hong Kong as a Global Financial Center by Enhancing the Overall Regtech Capacity of the Industry and Facilitating the Regulation and Infrastructure Design of CBDC and Digital Assets in Hong Kong |
HKUST, PolyU
|
- |
5.624 |
| Theme 4: Advancing Emerging Research and Innovations Important to Hong Kong | |||
| Diamond-based Multi-modal Quantum Sensing of Nanomagnetism |
CityU, CUHK, HKU, HKUST
|
- |
7.091 |
|
Total(3 projects)
|
- |
20.000 |
|
| # |
CityU: City University of Hong Kong CUHK: The Chinese University of Hong Kong HKBU: Hong Kong Baptist University HKU: The University of Hong Kong HKUST: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology PolyU: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| * |
Inclusive of indirect costs / on-costs. The RGC’s funding allocation for the six projects with five-year budget in TRS 2023/24 is HK$315 million and the remaining HK$44 million of the approved budget will be matched by the universities concerned. For the three exploratory projects, the RGC’s funding allocation is $20 million and the university matching is subject to a revised one-year budget plan to be submitted by the project team which requires approval from the relevant Committee. |