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    The study of microRNAs (miRNAs), small RNAs that play important roles in gene regulation in animals and humans alike, have long been a topic of interest to many. How these miRNAs control and regulate gene expression, a subject of great importance in biology and medicine, is often believed to hold the keys to providing effective cures, or strategies, to different phenomenon and symptoms, such as cancer, a result of cell mutations.

Looking back on the key achievements and developments of the University over 2021-22.

It was a two-day sports event co-hosted between HKUST and Gay Games 11 Hong Kong 2023.

    In April to May 2019, the coral reefs near the French Polynesian island of Moorea in the central South Pacific Ocean suffered severe and prolonged thermal bleaching. The catastrophe occurred despite the absence of El Niño conditions that year, intriguing ocean scientists around the world. 

Scientists from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Institut Curie, France have jointly uncovered a new mechanism of the human MCM2-7 complex in regulating replication initiation, which can be used as a novel and effective anticancer strategy with the potential for selective killing of cancer cells. The findings were recently published in the Cell journal (link to publication).

SBM has published a first-ever in-depth research study to help Hong Kong chart the way forward in green and sustainable finance talent building. 

Prof. Nancy IP strongly supports the four broad development directions and eight major strategies stated in the Blueprint.

HKUST becomes the first university in Hong Kong to make a pledge to eliminate investments in fossil fuels.