Awards
| Winner / Winning Team | Award | Awarding Unit | Project / Poster Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faculty of Health Sciences of UM | Business Awards of Macau - Innovation | The 5th Macau Business Awards Presentation Ceremony | / |
| Prof. Greta MOK | Tracy Lynn Faber Memorial Award (*first Chinese won the prize) International Best Abstract Award | 65th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | Comparison of Different Tc-99m-MAA Imaging Protocols for Y-90 SIRT Treatment Planning |
| Dr. Ka Lai LEUNG | Best Poster Award | 8th Asia Pacific Worm Meeting | A sensitive and convenient fluorescent based method to study xenobiotic transformation in Caenorhabditis elegans |
| Dr. Heng SUN | The year in JBC: 2018 | The Journal of Biological Chemistry | Single-cell RNA-Seq Reveals Cell Heterogeneity and Hierarchy within Mouse Mammary Epithelia |
| Dapeng HAO (PhD Graduate) | Scientific and Technological R&D Award for Postgraduates 2018 | FDCT | / |
| Hada IEONG (PhD Graduate) | Trainee Professional Development Award | Society for Neuroscience | / |
| Shuai LI (PhD Student) | First Prize of Young Scholars Outstanding Paper | The 12th Annual Meeting of the Special Committee of Neurology of Guangdong Association of Integrative Medicine | Neuroprotective effect of Artemether on Alzheimer's disease model by activating AMPK /GSK3β(ser9)/ Nrf2 signaling pathway |
| Xia ZHAO (PhD Student) | First Prize of Young Scholars Outstanding Paper | The 12th Annual Meeting of the Special Committee of Neurology of Guangdong Association of Integrative Medicine | Protective Effect of Metformin against H2O2-induced Oxidative Damage in Human Retinal Pigment Epithelial (RPE) Cells through Activation of AMPK/mTOR/Autophagy Pathway |
| Jiankang FANG (PhD Student) | Third Prize of Young Excellent Papers | Conference of Guangdong Pharmacological Society 2019 | Artemisinin Attenuated Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2)-Induced Oxidative Injury in SH-SY5Y and Hippocampal Neurons Via the Activation of Ampk Pathway |
| Prof. Terence POON's team | Grace Award Student Team Award | HKUST Yuexiu Group One-Million-Dollars Entrepreneurship Grand Final Competition 2019 | Next Generation Protein Analytical Technologies |
| Prof. Terence POON's team | Second Runner Up Elevator Speech | Bank of China Trophy One Million Dollar Macao Regional Entrepreneurship Competition 2019 | Next Generation Protein Analytical Technologies |
| Prof. Renhe XU's team | First Prize Best Elevator Pitch Award | Bank of China Trophy One Million Dollar Macao Regional Entrepreneurship Competition 2018 | An Ambient Cell-transportation System |
| Prof. Renhe XU's team | Third Place | “Paraufuturo De Macao” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition 2018 | An Ambient Cell-transportation System |
| Prof. Renhe XU's team | Third Prize | Fosun Protechting Award "Fosun Protechting" Global Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition 2018 | An Ambient Cell-transportation System |
| Prof. Terence POON's team | IEEAC Award IEEAC Fosun Protechting Award | "Fosun Protechting" Global Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition 2018 | Next Generation Protein Analytical Products and Services for Clinical and Research Markets |
| Prof. Tzuming LIU's team | Second Prize | Greater Bay Area (Macau) Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition” | New Fluorescent Heart and Liver Surgery Positioning Monitor |
| Prof. Renhe XU's team | Second Prize Overseas Excellence Award | Shenzhen Dapeng New District Entrepreneurship Competition | An Ambient Cell-transportation System |
| Prof. Tzuming LIU's team | Third Place | 6th Jiangsu Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Competition | New Fluorescent Heart and Liver Surgery Positioning Monitor |
| Prof. Tzu-Ming LIU's team | Silver Prize | 2018 Guangdong Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition | New Fluorescent Heart and Liver Surgery Positioning Monitor |
| Prof. Leo LI’s team | Gold Prize (Environment Track） | 2019 International Genetic Engineered Machine (iGEM) | Self-activating Nanoparticles Collector E. Coli |
| Jingjing LI (Ph.D. Student) | Scientific and Technological R&D Award for Postgraduates | The Macao S&T Award 2020 | The Therapeutic Effect of Estrogen in Ovarian Cancer |
| Shuai LI (Ph.D. Student) | Scientific and Technological R&D Award for Postgraduates | The Macao S&T Award 2020 | The Therapeutic Effect of Artemisinin Drugs on Alzheimer's Disease |
| Prof. Leo LI’s team | Gold Prize (Top five in the Environment Track) | 2020 International Genetic Engineered Machine (iGEM) | Decomposing Biological Contamination by Genetically Modified E. Coli |
| Zhan ZHANG (Ph.D. Student) | Excellent Speakers Award | The 2nd International Ph.D Forum of Life and Health Sciences (Zhejiang University) | Polyphenol-Based Nanomedicine Evokes Immune Activation for Combination Cancer Treatment |
| Wei SANG (Ph.D. Student) | SLB/JLB Trainee Outstanding Research Award | Society for Leukocyte Biology and Journal of Leukocyte Biology | Oxygen-Enriched Metal-Phenolic X-Ray Nanoprocessor for Cancer Radio-Radiodynamic Therapy in Combination with Checkpoint Blockade Immunotherapy |
| Prof. Leo LI’s team | Silver Prize | 2021 International Genetic Engineered Machine (iGEM) | Bioengineering technology to reduce the amount of purine in beer |
| Prof. Renhe XU’s team | Excellence Award | Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area High-value Patent Portfolio Layout Competition 2021 | Stem Cell Ball Ointment for Diabetic Foot |
| Prof. Garry WONG | UM Teaching Excellence Award 2021/2022 | The University of Macau | |
| Prof. Yunlu DAI | NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund 2022 | National Natural Science Foundation | Metal-Phenolic Coordination Biomaterials |
| Fang WANG | Scientific and Technological R&D Award for Postgraduates | The Macao S&T Award 2022 | Transcription in fungal conidia before dormancy produces phenotypically variable conidia that maximize survival in different environments |
| Zhan ZHANG | Scientific and Technological R&D Award for Postgraduates | The Macao S&T Award 2022 | Metal-polyphenol coordination-based nanomedicine for cancer theranostics |
| Xiaoju MEN | Scientific and Technological R&D Award for Postgraduates | The Macao S&T Award 2022 | Ultrasmall Semiconducting Polymer Dots with Rapid Clearance for Second near‐Infrared Photoacoustic Imaging and Photothermal Cancer Therapy |
| Prof. Leo LEE’s team | Gold Prize | International Genetic Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition 2022 | AcidOceanus |
| Prof. Ruiyu XIE | No 1 spot of the 2022 Top Tweet Countdown in "Pancreatic Cell News" | STEMCEL Tech | TET1 dioxygenase is required for FOXA2-associated chromatin remodeling in pancreatic beta-cell differentiation |