The Hong Kong Prize is an award designed to recognize outstanding research conducted by young Fellows of the Academy. Submissions may come from any field of clinical practice or research; submissions must have been published in an academic peer-reviewed journal and must meet certain criteria. The winning paper in 2016 was an investigation of therapeutic targets for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), with potentially less invasive and safer treatments being proposed as potential winners.
Winner of BOCHK Science and Technology Innovation Prize Awards Ceremony Today (15 December 2023) at Hong Kong Alliance of Technology and Innovation’s Science and Technology Innovation Prize Awards Ceremony sponsored by Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited received a gold medal, congratulations of the jury, engraved certificate as well as silver medals with certificates of merit from all four finalists.
This year, nine works by Hong Kong artists made the shortlist – a record high since this prize’s establishment. Noormah Jamal’s Did the Seed Grow? painting explores themes of honour and disgrace that reflect Hong Kong’s unique historical status. Proceeds from its sale will go toward SAF’s Make It Better program which offers expressive arts workshops to children from underserved communities.
At the HK Film Awards, Ten Years was chosen as best picture, which caused great outrage in Beijing due to its depiction of semi-autonomous Hong Kong and depicting protestors self-immolating outside of British consulate, reflecting fears in Hong Kong over China’s tightening grip over Hong Kong. Ng Ka-leung stated he wasn’t concerned with what Beijing thought about his work.
BOCHK is proud to host the BOCHK Science and Technology Innovation Prize this week (20 October – 27 October 2023). This competition features five fields – Artificial Intelligence and Robotics; Life and Health; New Materials and New Technologies; Physics Mathematics and Computer Science – to bring world-renowned scientists from around the globe into Hong Kong for an inaugural visit this October.
Winners will be selected based on the relevance and objectivity of their research to the theme, collection materials used systematically and the objectivity in analysis as well as citation of bibliographies and footnotes. Standout teams will be invited for face-to-face interviews.
To ensure a fair prize draw, employees from HKJC’s security and customer service departments conduct rigorous tests of all materials used during a prize draw, from boxing and transportation materials, balls used by the drawing machine, as well as being regularly X-rayed on an ongoing basis. A random number generator also selects winning numbers; winners need to present identification documents in order to collect their prizes by 31 July 2024 or they will forfeit them; click here for more information.