HKUST Open day 2024
8 Nov 2024
Jacky introduced our Lab's research and achievements to the visitors.
Lab Gathering at Sai Kung
12 Sep 2024
Seafood Feast welcomes our new member: Holly and Marx!
Congratulation to Orion Zhenghua Liang completing his Ph.D. !
26 Aug 2024
Dr. Liang after his amazing thesis defense. Congratulations!
Congratulations on the inauguration of the collaboration with Innovac Therapeutics！
20 Aug 2024
The signing ceremony between HKUST and Innovac Therapeutics was officially completed today, wishing the co-operation all the best for the future.
Congratulations to Prof. Kuang for winning The 49th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva Gold metal!
15 July 2024
Prof. Kuang received the 49th International Exhibition of Invention Geneva gold metal for the "Optimized mRNA Tails Enhance Effectiveness of mRNA Drugs and Vaccines".
She recently attended Hong Kong's I&T Achievements Shine in International Arena in recognition of the outstanding research and development achievements.
Congratulation to Orion on wining HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award for PhD Students in 2023-24 & Best Teaching Assistant Award in Chemical and Biological Engineering 2024!
8 Jul 2023
Congratulation to Jacky: Chan Tak Kei & Wong Kwai Ying Award of Best PG for Research Excellence Award 2024!
14 June 2023
Congratulation to Orion: HKMHDIA(1st Runner-up) of Best PG for Research Excellence Award 2024!
14 June 2023
Congratulations to Jacky for receiving top 6 of the SENG PhD Research Excellence Award 2023-24
30 May 2024
Dr. LI Cheuk Yin, Jacky receiving the finalist for the SENG PhD Research Excellence Award 2023-24 recognizing his hard-work in research.
Congratulations to Lala: First Runner-Up of the UROP Award, A Well-Deserved Recognition
26 Apr 2024
Lala receiving the first runner-up for the 2024 Kerry Holdings Limited Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Award recognizing her hard-work in research.
Check out our new article in Chemical Communications
12 Apr 2024
Zhenghua Liang, Dr. Yaxin Hu, Dr. Cheuk Yin Li, Wai Laam Yau, and Dr. Kaixin Tan supervised by Becki Yi Kuang at HKUST, published a technology article on Chemical Communications: VPg-based bidirectional synthetic mRNA circuits enable orthogonal protein regulation for high-resolution cell separation.
Congratulations!
Celebrating Carrie and Wishing Her Well on Her Next Adventure
11 Apr 2023
A farewell dinner of our lab members with Carrie Yaxin Hu and hope her best in the future!
Congratulation to Jacky Cheuk Yin Li completing his Ph.D. !
13 Dec 2023
Dr. Li and our fellow colleagues after his amazing thesis defense. Congratulations!
Christmas celebration dinner with our fellow researchers.
20 Dec 2023
Christmas dinner celebrating Jacky getting Ph.D. degree with all our lab members, researchers and fellow family members.
Our current lab members and fellow researchers:
Cherry Lu, Orion Liang, Lala Fu, Prof. Becki Kuang, Dr. Li, Yaxin Hu and Francis Fok.
Check out our new article in Bioorganic Chemistry!
05 Jan 2024
Zhenghua Liang, Kaixin Tan and Cheuk Yin Li, supervised by Becki Yi Kuang at HKUST, published a mRNA device research article on Bioorganic Chemistry Self-feedback loop-containing synthetic mRNA switches for controlled microRNA sensing.
Congratulations!
Check out our new article in Cell Chemical Biology!
29 Nov 2023
Yaxin Hu, Cheuk Yin Li and Qiuyu Lu supervised by Becki Yi Kuang at HKUST, published a technology article on Cell Chemical Biology: Multiplex miRNA reporting platform for real-time profiling of living cells.
Congratulations!
Congratulation to our new graduates!
17 Nov 2023
Congratulation on Yaxin Hu and Kaixin Tan getting Doctoral degrees and Kyle Wai Laam Yau getting Master degree!
Check out our new article in Synthetic Biology!
17 Aug 2023
Kaixin Tan as the first author and his fellow colleagues, supervised by Becki Yi Kuang at HKUST, published a complex mRNA circuit study Dual Input-Controlled Synthetic mRNA Circuit for Bidirectional Protein Expression Regulation.
Congratulations!
Congratulation to Jacky on wining the Chan Tak Kei & Wong Kwai Ying Bioengineering Student Research Award!
27 Jul 2023
Check out our new article in Angewandte Chemie!
22 Jul 2023
Cheuk Yin Li and Zhenghua Liang supervised by Becki Yi Kuang at HKUST, published an extracellular peptide self-assembly study Intracellular Molecules Induced Extracellular Peptide Self-Assembly for Efficient and Effective In Situ Cell Purification.
Congratulations!
Coguratulations to Jacky and Orion on receiving the HKUST Redbird Academic Excellence Rewards!
19 Jun 2023
Our work has been spotlighted on HKUST Unicorn Day for knowledge transfer discussion.
23 May 2023
Jacky and Orion's work has published on HKUST Engineering In Focus Magazine, Congrats!
21 Mar 2023
The work has been released in title : "Spurring mRNA drug and vaccine effectiveness". Check it out!
We got donation from Fei Chi En Foundation.
22 Feb 2023
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) received a donation of HK$20 million from Mr. Andy FEI Chi-En, for the enhancement of HKUST’s development in innovation and technology (I&T), research and education. [Link]
Spotlight: Hong Kong RNA Club RNA Enthusiast
02 Feb 2023
Dr. Yi Kuang (Becki) has been spotlighted as the featured RNA enthusiast introduced at the 5th HKRNA Club Anniversary. Check out the details! [link]
Press Release: A novel mRNA modification method boosts the effects of mRNA vaccines and drugs
22 Nov 2022
科大提升mRNA合成效率 有助治疗癌症及预防新冠——《大公報》
增製造蛋白質 最多10倍 科大改良mRNA尾鏈序列 冀增藥效治新冠癌症——《晴報》
Check out our new article in Molecular Therapy - Nucleic Acids!
12 Oct 2022
Cheuk Yin Li, Zhenghua Liang, Yaxin Hu and Kharis Daniel Setiasabda, supervised by Becki Yi Kuang at HKUST, published an mRNA-tail study Cytidine-containing Tails Robustly Enhance and Prolong Protein Production of Synthetic mRNA In Cell and In Vivo.
Congratulations!
Check out our new article in Fundamental Research!
20 Jun 2022
Kaixin Tan, co-supervised by Prof. Shaohua Ma of Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, published an article Droplet-engineered organoids recapitulate parental tissue transcriptome with inter-organoid homogeneity and inter-tumor cell heterogeneity.
Congratulations!
Check out our new article in Angewandte Chemie!
15 Jun 2022
Qiuyu Lu, Yaxin Hu and Cheuk Yin Li, published a synthetic biology study Aptamer-Array-Guided Protein Assembly Enhances Synthetic mRNA Switch Performance.
Congratulations!
Two new research fund granted!
30 Jun 2021
We recently obtained two new research fund from UGC (University Grants Committee) and GRF (General research fund).
Congratulations to Jacky!
30 Jul 2020
Congratulate to Jacky on passing his MPhil thesis defence!
2020/2021 General Research Fund
30 Jun 2020
We are granted our first General Research Fund!
Congratulations to Mr. LIANG Zhenghua's graduation
07 Nov 2019
Celebration in the 2019 Congregation of HKUST and best wishes to Zhenghua for gaining his Bachelor's degree.
Establishment of "Li Ka Shing Institute of Synthetic Biology" in HKUST
28 Aug 2019
Prof. KUANG was invited to attend and give presentation in the press conference. (from left: Prof. I-Ming HSING, Head of CBE Department; Prof. Wei SHYY, President of HKUST; Prof. Becki Yi KUANG)
Lab Gathering at Sai Kung
27 Aug 2019
A seafood lunch to welcome new members: Orion, Carrie, Kharis and Kaixin, and farewell to our exchange student Daniel.
Congratulations to Zhenghua!
19 Jul 2019
Congratulations to our UROP student Zhenghua who earned a place on the Spring 2018-19 Dean’s list, and also he will join our lab as MPhil student this fall.
2019/2020 Early Career Scheme
28 Jun 2019
We got our first RGC grant!!
New HPLC and flow cytometer arrived
05 Jun 2019
Training for new instruments.
Happy Valentine's Day
14 Feb 2019
Lab gathering at UC Bistro.
Celebrate the Spring Festival
01 Feb 2019
Spring festival couplet on the lab door
Christmas Gathering
19 Dec 2018
A wonderful seafood dinner at Sai Kung.
Lab Gathering
10 Sep 2018
A happy welcome dinner at Kwun Tong.
New Instruments
30 Aug 2018
New instruments arrived.
New chemicals
23 Aug 2018
First batch of chemicals arrived.
Lab Signboard
20 Aug 2018
We got our new lab signboard with the name of: RNA Engineering and Soft Materials Laboratory.
Report Duty
01 Aug 2018
Cherry reported duty as Research Assistant.
Jacky reported duty as Mphil student.
Official Establishment
03 Jul 2018
Lab 6119 officially established in HKUST
