Each year the Foundation selects a small number of exceptional Hong Kong scientists for support under the Senior Research Fellowship scheme.

The Senior Research Fellowships were inaugurated in 1996 to offer full financial support for senior scientists to devote a year to full-time research, away from heavy teaching and administrative responsibilities.

The Fellows are selected by the Foundation on the basis of confidential peer assessments and in these exercises, the Foundation is privileged to be able to enlist help from a number of leading scientists in the international community.

Professor David Karl BANFIELD

For his contributions to our understanding of proteins transport and sorting in cells.

Professor Henry CHAN Lik Yuen

For his translational research that advances our knowledge of liver diseases and improves clinical practices.

Professor John LUI Chi Shing

For identifying key principles underlying various networks, and for designing efficient mechanisms for network security and system optimization.

Professor Lawrence WONG Ka Sing

For unravelling the predominant cause of stroke among Chinese populations, and making significant progress in stroke treatments.

Professor YANG Tong

For his remarkable accomplishments in solving long-standing mathematical problems in hyperbolic conservation laws and the Boltzmann equation.

The full list of the Senior Research Fellowships and Senior Medical Research Fellowships awarded by the Foundation in previous years is available here.