Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences

Professor SUN Sai-Ming Samuel

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 since 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 Liwen

Dr. Jiang joined CUHK Biology as an Assistant Professor in 2000 and was promoted as Professor in 2007. Professor Jiang is currently Choh-Ming Li Professor of Life Sciences of School of Life Sciences and Director of RGC-AoE Centre for Organelle Biogenesis and Function, as well as Director of Centre for Cell and Developmental Biology. Professor Jiang's research team has been working on the underlying mechanisms of protein transport, organelle biogenesis and function in plants for 15 years at CUHK, and has been internationally recognized as a leading group in the field. Professor Jiang received numerous awards for teaching and research achievements, including CUHK Science Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award 2008, CUHK Research Excellence Award thrice (2006-07, 2009-10 & 2015-16), Croucher Senior Research Fellowship twice (2009-10 & 2015-16), Ministry of Education (MOE) Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research  Output Awards  twice  (2009  & 2013), Outstanding Fellow of the Faculty of Science (2013) and Choh-Ming Li Professorship of Life Sciences (2014). Graduate students from Professor Jiang's lab have also received many prestigious awards, including CUHK Young Scholars Dissertation Award  (twice),  Postgraduate  Research  Output  Award  (five  times),  Keystone  Symposium Scholarship (twice) and Human Frontier Science Program Long-Term Fellows (twice).

As Pl/PC, Professor Jiang has received competitive research grants worth over HK$90 million from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, the Croucher Foundation and other important funding bodies. Professor Jiang has also served as editorial board member of several international journals, including The Plant Cell, Molecular Plant, BMC Plant Biology, Protoplasma, and Journal of Genetics and Genomics.