Department News | Department of Chemistry HKU

06 Nov 2020

A research team led by Prof. Hongzhe Sun reveals an antirheumatic metallodrug can resurrect “last-resort” antibiotics to kill multi-drug resistant superbugs
21 Oct 2020

Prof. Vivian Yam becomes the Chief Editor for Chemistry in flagship journal: Natural Sciences
13 Oct 2020

A research team led by Prof. Hongzhe Sun has discovered a novel antiviral strategy for treatment of COVID-19.
12 Oct 2020

Chemistry Leaflet (2020–2021) and online Science Talk by Dr. Edmund Tse on October 20th, 2020.
21 Sep 2020

Dr. Yufeng Wang is awarded the prestigious fund under the National Natural Science Foundation of China
29 Jun 2020

Prof. Vivian Yam receives the prestigious Porter Medal 2020
21 Feb 2020

Prof. Chi-Ming Che is awarded the Luigi Sacconi Medal 2020
07 Jan 2020

Prof. Vivian Yam was conferred the FACS Foundation Lectureship Award 2019
17 Dec 2019

Dr. Yufeng Wang was conferred the Croucher Innovation Award 2019
15 Dec 2019

A team led by Prof. Hongzhe Sun used an AI approach to predict disease-associated mutations of the metal-binding sites of a protein
24 Sep 2019

HKU chemical biologists identify a new histone mark that regulates chromatin structure during gene expression and DNA repair
20 Aug 2019

Three outstanding HKU Chemistry students receive Croucher awards to study at world top universities
01 Aug 2019

International Year of the Periodic Table T- Shirt Design Contest
29 Jul 2019

NSFC-BHAEC Joint Symposium on Chemistry for New Frontiers
11 Feb 2019

Prof. Xuechen Li was awarded the Rao Makineni Lectureship (2019) by American Peptide Society