CUHK wins HK$46.3 million for aging research
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Summary
The Chinese University of Hong Kong has won about HK$46.3 million from the Research Grants Council under the Strategic Topics Grant for 2026/27 for two interdisciplinary healthcare projects. One project targets aging-associated sarcopenia, while the other will build an artificial intelligence-enhanced platform for advance care planning in end-of-life care
Key Points
- The larger grant, worth HK$24.925 million, went to “Combating Aging-Associated Sarcopenia: From Knowledge Discovery to Intervention Testing,” led by Professor Wang Huating of CUHK’s Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
- CUHK said the sarcopenia project will combine AI engineering and biomedicine to study muscle deterioration, create an AI-assisted drug discovery system, and run clinical trials for new treatments
- A second project, awarded HK$21.4 million, is titled “Building an Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Platform for One-Stop Advance Care Planning Model” and is led by Professor Helen Chan Yue-lai of the Nethersole School of Nursing
- The advance care planning platform will include AI decision-support tools for families, automated documentation functions, and communication training for healthcare staff
- CUHK said the end-of-life care platform will be piloted across 24 local community care units and residential homes, as Hong Kong faces pressures linked to an aging population
Why It Matters
Hong Kong’s aging population is increasing demand for better chronic care, frailty treatment and end-of-life planning, making these projects directly relevant to patients, families and care providers. CUHK Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Jiang Liwen said the awards show how the university is linking AI, geriatrics, nursing and translational clinical research to produce practical social benefits