Affiliated Members from Other Local Institutions

Department of Science and Environmental Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong

• Functional metal-organic frameworks
• Luminescent transition metal complexes

Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong

• Environmental proteomics
• Detection and toxicology of marine biotoxins
• Genetic resources and natural product discovery of marine microperiphyton
• Algal biology, taxonomy and ecology
• Sustainable ecological aquaculture
• Underwater innovative technology, scientific safety diver training and accreditation system

School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• RNA omics and bioinformatics

Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health, City University of Hong Kong

• Microbiology
• Microbiome
• Bacterial antimicrobial resistance and virulence
• Drug development

Department of Science and Environmental Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong

• Ecotoxicology
• Ecology and Conservation
• Pollution Monitoring and Assessment

Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong

• Marine Ecology and Conservation
• Marine Environmental Studies

Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University

• Marine biology
• Marine pollution
• Larval biology

Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University

• Environmental health
• Environmental remediation
• Sewage treatment

School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Crustacean Biology and Aquaculture
• Marine Genomics and Biotechnology
• Molecular Systematics and Ecology
• Environmental and Biodiversity Conservation
• Seafood Allergy

School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Reproductive and larval biology of corals
• Coral recruitment dynamics
• Coral restoration

Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

• Marine ecotoxicology and ecophysiology
• Monitoring of microplastics
• Coral reef bioerosion processes

Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University

• Air-ocean interactions
• Chemistry-climate interactions
• Climate modeling

School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong

• Aquatic ecotoxicology
• Emerging organic contaminants
• Molecular and cellular toxicology
• Small fish models

School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong

• Electrochemistry
• Photoelectrochemistry and Materials

School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Evolutionary biology
• Comparative genomics
• Gene regulation
• Noncoding RNAs
• Hormones
• Zoology

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

• Assessment of chemical-microbial mixture toxicity
• Marine pollution and wildlife health
• Aquaculture pollution and food safety
• Air pollution, bioaerosols and respiratory health

Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong

• Omics analysis of molecular responses to endocrine disruptors and hypoxic stress in marine fish
• Molecular toxicology
• Epigenetics

Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health, City University of Hong Kong

• Diagnostic Imaging
• Forensics
• Biodiversity and Conservation

Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong

• Omics analysis of marine organisms
• Hypoxic responses of marine fish
• Fish reproduction

School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong

• Electrocatalysis (Synthesis and Degradation of Organic Substrates)
• Organic Mechanisms and Synthetic Pathways
• Environmental Pollution Remediation
• Biomass and Waste Valorisation

Department of Science and Environmental Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong

• Marine environmental research
• Pollution monitoring
• Risk Assessment

Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong

• Analytical Chemistry
• Chemosensing
• Biosensing
• Environmental Chemistry

The Open University of Hong Kong

• Ecology
• Environmental Measurement & Analysis
• Ecotoxicology
• Environmental Toxicology & Risk Assessment

Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong

• Marine ecology
• Aquatic pollution and ecotoxicology
• Ecological risk assessment
• Ecological restoration with eco-engineering

Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health, City University of Hong Kong

• Omics
• Microbiome
• Biostatistics
• Data science in biomedical sciences

Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health, City University of Hong Kong

• Genome assembly and annotation
• Developing toolkits for long read sequencing

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

• Regional environmental pollution
• Urban environmental quality and human health
• Soil pollution and phytoremediation

Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong

• Genomics-guided discovery of natural products from marine microbiome

School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong

• Waste valorisation, and in the following three main areas in particular:
• Food waste-based biorefineries
• Waste and biomass valorisation
• Metabolic engineering of microorganisms for fermentative production of biobased products

School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong

• Male reproductive physiology
• Endocrinology
• Signaling pathway
• Cell junction dynamics

School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics
• Population Ecology

Department of Science and Environmental Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong

• Biogeochemical cycles of persistent toxic substances in the environment
• Health risk assessments with a focus on food safety
• The use of food waste for culturing fish

School of Science and Technology, The Open University of Hong Kong

• Food waste cycling
• Alternatives to antimicrobial in aquaculture
• Aquaculture
• Fish immunology

School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong

• Environmental Chemistry

Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong

• Microplastic pollution
• Environmental geochemistry
• Paleoceanography
• Arctic paleoclimate

Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University

• Marine Biodiversity
• Ecology

State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong

• Environmental Analytical Chemistry
• Environmental Risk Assessment
• Aquatic Toxicology

Laboratory of Marine Invertebrate Diversity and Phylogeny, Ocean University of China

• Deep-sea biology

School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Molecular ecology
• Crustacean biology
• Evolutionary biology

School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University

• Pharmacology and Molecular Biology

Department of Science and Environmental Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong

• Wastewater and sludge treatment
• Bioremediation
• Removal of pharmaceuticals & personal care products (PPCPs) and endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs)
• Water pollution and microfibres
• Resource recovery from organic waste

School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong

• Marine Environmental Science

School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong

• Molecular and Cell Biology

School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong

• Comparative Endocrinology and Physiology

Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University

• Marine Sciences
• Endocrinology and Toxicology

Department of Science and Environmental Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong

• Ecotoxicology
• Environmental Geochemical Cycles of Persistent Toxic Substances

Department of Science and Environmental Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong

• Marine pollution
• Ecotoxicology
• Marine ecology

School of Science and Technology, The Open University of Hong Kong

• Ecotoxicology and marine pollution
• Fish physiology
• Microalgae biology

Earth System Science Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Earthquake Seismology
• Marine Geophysics

Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong

• Nanomaterials
• Catalysts

Division of Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University - Hong Kong Baptist University United International College

• Microbial synthesis of bioactive drugs
• Application of biotoxins as novel pharmaceutical drugs
• Production of biofuels from agricultural wastes
• Green energy exploration

Technology Development Division, Hong Kong Baptist University

• Molecular mechanism of skeletal disorders
• Targeted delivery system in nanoscale for RNAi strategy for skeletal disorders
• Small molecular drugs for skeletal disorders
• Design and screening of herb-derived small molecules for musculoskeletal disorders
• Clinical trial

School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University

• Pharmacognosy
• Natural Products Drug Discovery
• Medicinal Chemistry

Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong

• Proteomics
• Cell Signaling

State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University

• Marine viral ecology

Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong

• Environmental microbiome engineering and bioinformatics
• Wastewater engineering
• Environmental bioresources
• Emerging pollutants
• Sediment bioremediation