University Education Award

Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award

Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award

Exemplary Teaching Award in General Education, Senate Committee on General Education (SCGE)

CUHK Research Excellence Award

CUHK Young Researcher Award

Academic Honorees

Professor Sun is the Research Professor of Biology. He joined the University in 1995 and was Chair of the Department of Biology from 1996 to 2004 as well as the Founding Director of the Molecular Biotechnology Programme from 1998 to 1999. He has also been the Director/Coordinator of the UGC-AoE Centre for Plant and Agricultural Biotechnology (former as Plant and Fungal Biotechnology Centre) since 2000, Director of Institute of Plant Molecular Biology and Agricultural Biotechnology since 2006, Director of State Key Lab of Agrobiotechnology (CUHK) since 2008, and Master of S. H. Ho College in 2009.

 Professor Sun’s research interests encompass a number of areas such as plant gene isolation, characterization, transfer, expression, and regulation; plant bioreactors; as well as rice quality improvement and functional genomics. Professor Sun is credited as the scientist who first cloned a plant gene, discovered plant gene intervening sequences, and enhanced an essential amino acid in plant through biotechnological approach.

Croucher Senior Research Fellowship

Professor Jiang joined CUHK in 2000, after receiving his PhD from Canada’s Simon Fraser University and working as a Research Associate at Washington State University for four years. He is now Professor of the School of Life Sciences and Director of the Centre for Cell and Development Biology. He has received numerous awards for outstanding teaching and research, including Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award by China’s Ministry of Education and Research Excellence Award by the University. During the past ten years, he has also received competitive research grants worth over HK$20 million from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National High-Technology Research and Development Programme, and other important funding bodies.

Professor Jiang has spent most of his career researching on plant biotechnology and is a joint holder of a US patent on a plant gene expression system for transgenic seeds. He particularly concerns the molecular mechanism of protein degradation in germinating seeds, the characterization of plant prevacuolar compartments at the molecular level, protein targeting and organelle biogenesis. He is also a member of the American Society for Plant Biologists, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the International Society for Seed Science.

MoE Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award

RGC Research Fellow Scheme / RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme