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Research Team Led by Prof. Rongbiao TONG in Dept of Chemistry and Prof. Peiyuan QIAN in Dept of Ocean Science Developed World’s most Productive Chemical Synthesis of Anthracimycin, Paving Way for Development of Potent Antibiotics Against Superbugs

Prof. Rongbiao TONG’s project on "Novel Antibiotics from Genome Mining and Diversity-oriented Synthesis" was awarded by the Research Grants Council Collaborative Research Fund 2022/23 (C6022-22WF) with over HK$5 million funding

Prof Ding PAN and his research group recently (Oct 2022) published an article entitled "Nanoconfinement facilitates reactions of carbon dioxide in supercritical water" in Nature Communications (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33696-w)

Prof. Ding PAN was identified by the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics as one of the 2021 Emerging Leaders

Prof. Haipeng LU was selected by the Royal Society of Chemistry Nanoscale as Emerging Investigator, 2022

The Department of Chemistry in HKUST is ranked no. 30 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022

Prof Jianwei SUN has been awarded over HK$6M from the Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) to develop new chiral catalysts for asymmetric synthesis. This is the only project funded for fundamental chemistry research in this round of exercise

Prof. Shihe YANG was identified as 2021 Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Materials Science by Clarivate Analytics

Prof. Ben Zhong TANG was identified as 2021 Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Chemistry and Materials Science by Clarivate Analytics

Dr. Jacky Wing Yip LAM was identified as 2021 Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Chemistry by Clarivate Analytics