e-Bulletin April 2026
RECOGNITION |
Celebrating Award-Winning Research Breakthroughs
The 51st International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva 2026
We are delighted to announce that our academic staff have received recognition at the 51st International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva, winning one Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury, two gold medals, and two silver medals for their ground-breaking research in public health innovation.
Special congratulations to Professor Tommy Lam and his team whose invention was honoured with a Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury. Their innovation provides an isothermal nucleic acid-based method and reagent kits for point-of-care testing of mosquito-borne viruses within 15 minutes, with serotype-level resolution.
Additionally, Professor Michael Chan, Dr Te Nigeer, and Professor Tommy Lam, along with their teams, earned further gold and silver medals for their impactful projects. These awards highlight our commitment to advancing public health innovations and impactful biomedical research on the global stage.
The School extends our heartfelt congratulations to all the award-winning teams for this well-deserved international recognition.
Award-Winning Projects
Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury
Rapid point-of-care molecular detection of evolving mosquito-borne viruses
By Professor Tommy Lam, Dr Wang Ji and Dr Liao Yunshi
Gold Medals
A broad-spectrum live-attenuated mucosal vaccine against beta-coronaviruses
By Dr Nigger Te, Dr Alex Chin and Professor Leo Poon
Synthetic ion channels: a novel multifunctional therapeutic for emerging infectious disease and acute lung injury
By Professor Michael Chan, Dr Rachel Ching, Dr Sze To Wun-chung and Professor Yang Dan of School of Life Sciences, Westlake University
Silver Medals
Novel small-molecule antivirals against mosquitoborne flaviviruses: a host-directed approach via E3 ligase inhibition
By Professor Tommy Lam and Dr Iolanthe Lan Yun
T328, a novel triple-actions therapeutic for highly pathogenic respiratory virus infection
By Professor Michael Chan, Dr Rachel Ching, Dr Sze To Wun-chung and Professor Yang Dan of School of Life Sciences, Westlake University
