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COVID-19 intranasal vaccine that has comparatively fewer side
The Competitive Edge of the HK-SZ Biotech Development and the Significance of the Co-operation
effects than conventional COVID-19 vaccines; Professor Guan Yi of Table 1 Biotech-related State Key Laboratories or

Hong Kong Branches of Chinese National
HKU and Professor Joseph Sriyal Malik Peiris, Founding Member of Engineering Research Centres
Hong Kong Academy of Sciences, were awarded the John Dirks
Canada Gairdner Global Health Award in 2021 in recognition of State Key Laboratories or Hong Kong
their contribution to infectious disease research in Asia; CUHK’s Universities Branches of Chinese National
Professor Dennis Lo Yuk-ming invented a non-invasive prenatal test Engineering Research Centres
that safely and accurately screens for Down Syndrome during early State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious
pregnancy, and was awarded the 2021 Breakthrough Prize–Life Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Brain and
Sciences, a distinction dubbed the “Oscars of Medical Sciences”; University of Cognitive Sciences, State Key Laboratory of
Hong Kong
Professor Nancy Ip Yuk-yu of HKUST developed a drug to treat Liver Research, State Key Laboratory of
Alzheimer’s, and for that she was awarded the L’OREAL-UNESCO Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
for Women in Science Award, also known as “Women’s Nobel Hong Kong State Key Laboratory of Molecular
Prize”. University of Neuroscience, Hong Kong Branch of National
Science and Engineering Research Center for Tissue
Hong Kong’s reputation in scientific research is well-regarded, Technology Restoration & Reconstruction
with 22 university laboratories designated as State Key State Key Laboratory of Translational
Laboratories or Hong Kong Branches of Chinese National Chinese Oncology, State Key Laboratory of
Engineering Research Centres by the National Ministry of Science University of Agrobiotechnology, State Key Laboratory of
and Technology of which 13 are related to biotech (see Table 1). Hong Kong Research on Bioactivities and Clinical
Applications of Medicinal Plants, State Key
Laboratory of Digestive Disease
City University
of Hong Kong State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution
Hong Kong State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and
Polytechnic Drug Discovery
University
Hong Kong State Key Laboratory of Environmental and
Baptist Biological Analysis
University
Source: Innovation and Technology Commission
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