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Ten CUHK Professors Named Highly Cited Researchers 2021
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is proud to announce that 10 CUHK professors have been named on the Highly Cited Researchers list of 2021.
The much-anticipated annual Highly Cited Researchers list, released today (16 November) by Clarivate Analytics, identifies researchers who demonstrated significant and broad influence in their field(s) of study through the publication of multiple highly cited papers which ranked in the top 1% by citations during the last decade.
The list includes CUHK professors from the Medicine, Science, Engineering and Social Sciences faculties. Details are as follows:
Category |
Researcher |
Department / Faculty and Titles |
Research Areas |
Clinical Medicine |
Professor Henry Lik Yuen CHAN |
Clinical Professor (honorary), Faculty of Medicine |
Hepatitis, fatty liver, cirrhosis, liver cancer |
Professor Tony MOK |
Chairman of the Department of Clinical Oncology and Li Shu Fan Medical Foundation Professor of Clinical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine |
Lung cancer, targeted therapy, immunotherapy and biomarker |
|
Professor Joseph Jao-yiu SUNG |
CUHK Emeritus Professor of Medicine |
Gastrointestinal ulcer bleeding, gastric cancer, hepatitis, colon cancer |
|
Professor Vincent Wai Sun WONG |
Mok Hing Yiu Professor of Medicine and Head of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine |
Fatty liver |
|
Cross-Field |
Professor David Shu Cheong HUI |
Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine |
Respiratory failure and sleep disordered breathing, management of emerging severe acute respiratory infections, safety of respiratory therapy and prevention of nosocomial infections in the post SARS era, common airway diseases |
Professor Siew Chien NG |
Professor, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine |
Inflammatory bowel disease, gut microbiota, microbiota transplantation, colorectal cancer |
|
Professor Po Keung WONG |
Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science |
Photocatalytic treatment for environmental / water purification, environmental technology, environmental microbiology / biotechnology |
|
Professor Jimmy YU |
Research Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science |
Preparation and characterisation of novel nano-structured materials, environmental applications of photocatalysis |
|
Social Sciences |
Professor Mei-Po KWAN |
Choh-Ming Li Professor of Geography and Resource Management, Faculty of Social Science |
Environmental health, human mobility, transport and health issues in cities, geographic information science |
* A professor from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, is among the list.
The full 2021 Highly Cited Researchers list can be found at: https://recognition.webofscience.com/awards/highly-cited/2021/