2021

Prof. Benzhong TANG, Prof. He YAN, Prof. Shihe YANG, Dr. Ryan KWOK and Dr. Jacky LAM were identified as 2020 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate Analytics

Research team led by Prof. Xuhui Huang discovered how antibiotics target bacterial RNAP to inhibit its gene transcription (This article was published on EurekAlert! on May 4, 2021)

Prof. Jianwei SUN has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Research Team led by Prof. Jinqing HUANG develops a novel Raman spectroscopy platform to characterize intrinsically disordered proteins in dilute solution

UG (CHEM) Yr 4 student Mr. Wing Yin Timothy MA (Supervisor: Prof. Haibin SU) was one of the Finalists of the 2021 Mr Armin and Mrs Lillian Kitchell Undergraduate Research Award (UROP)

Research team led by Prof. Wan CHAN and Prof. Jianzhen YU found that wearing face masks may reduce cancer risks associated with airborne carcinogens

The Department of Chemistry in HKUST is ranked no. 31 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021

Prof. Jianwei Sun and his research team find novel way to produce new kind of chiral molecules bringing new hope for drug development

Prof. Jianzhen Yu received the 2020 Distinguished Alumna Award from the Department of Environmental Sciences & Engineering at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Prof. Xuhui HUANG was awarded Pople Medal from Asia-Pacific Association of Theoretical & Computational Chemists in 2021 for the development of statistical mechanics based methods to elucidate conformational dynamics of complexed biological macromolecules