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Three COCHE Co-PIs receive RGC awards 2023/24


Three COCHE Co-PIs have been awarded by the Research Grants Council (RGC) for their outstanding research projects in 2023/24.

Professor Yu HUANG’s project, titled “Single-Cell Multi-Omics Study of Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease: Narrowing the Gap Between Bench and Bedside” has secured HK$55.51 million in Theme-based Research Scheme (TRS).


Professor Chunyi ZHI has been granted Senior Research Fellowship award (SRFS) with HK$7.8 million. His project is “Lean-water hydrogel/solid polymer hybrid electrolytes based quasi-solid-state zinc batteries with >20000 cycling lifespan for energy storage”.


Professor Xinge YU has been awarded for the Research Fellow Scheme (RFS). He receives the fellowship grant of HK$5.2 million for supporting project on “Skin-Integrated and Multi-functional Closed Loop Human Machine Interface: Sensing, Actuation, and System Integration”.


Congratulations to our Co-PIs. We hope they will continue to go all out in the future and produce impactful research results.


More information about

1. RGC Theme-based Research Scheme (TRS) https://www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/funding_opport/trs/index.html

2. RGC Research Fellow Scheme (RFS) and RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme (SRFS) https://www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/funding_opport/rrfs/index.html

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