Welcome Ms. Akriti Chadda from Vellore Institute of Technology to join the group.

Welcome Ms. Zoe Zhang from KU Leuven and Ms. Anastasia Maslova from Moscow State University to join the group.

Welcome Mr. Ri WANG, a recent graduate from Zhejiang University of China, joining the group for his Ph.D. thesis study in bioengineering

Congratulations to Dr. Thomas Ming-Hung, a Hsing group alumnus, for his promotion to tenured Associate Professor in the Interdisciplinary Division of Biomedical Engineering at Polytechnic University of Hong Kong.

Congratulation to the group's recent JACS paper "Triggering Hairpin-Free Chain-Branching Growth of Fluorescent DNA Dendrimers for Nonlinear Hybridization Chain Reaction" (first authored by Feng XUAN) highlighted as a Spotlight article in JACS.

Congratulations to Chunlei and co-authors for their recent work "Organic Electrochemical Transistor Array for Recording Transepithelial Ion Transport of Human Airway Epithelial Cells" accepted for publication in Advanced Materials.

Congratulations to Mr. Chandra Jinata, Ph.D. student at BIEN and HKPFS recipient, for representing the country of Indonesia to attend Y20 summit in Russia, as part of Russian G20 Presidency' Outreach Strategy

Congratulations to Ms. Danhui Cheng, PhD student in BIEN and HKPFS recipient,  for receiving 2013/2014 RGC-Fulbright Junior Award. Danhui will be hosted by an MIT lab. for six months starting Sep. 2013.

Congratulations to Ms. Tsz Wing FAN, a senior year student at Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering of HKUST, for receiving the prestigious 2013/2014 Hong Kong  Ph.D. Fellowships. Tse Wing will join the HSING group in Fall 2013 as a CBME Ph.D. student.

Prof. Hsing was awarded a 2013 visiting lectureship by  Chemistry Research Promotion Center at National Science Council of Taiwan. During a week long visit to Taiwan in early March, Prof. Hsing gave invited seminars at four Universities in Taiwan, including Taiwan University, Tsinghua University, Chung Hsing University and Tunghai University.

Prof. Hsing chaired the USTBME conference at HKUST campus on January 10-12, 2013.

Prof. Hsing gave a keynote talk in the 5th Japan-Korea Joint Symposium on Bio-microsensing Technology-Future Technology in Medical & Dental Areas-on Oct. 26 in Kitakyushu, Japan.

Prof. Hsing gave an invited talk in C2 Symposium, Bioengineering based on Electrochemistry, at the PRIME meeting on Oct. 7-12, in Hawaii, USA

Prof. Hsing gave plenary lecture in RSC Tokyo International Conference on Sep. 6-7, 2012 in Japan.

A big welcome to three graduate students who just joined the Hsing group in August 2012. They are Mr. Chandra JINATA from Indonesia's Institut Teknologi Bandung who is a Ph.D. student in Bioengineering and a Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship (HKPFS) recipient, Ms. Joy Zhang from China's Fudan University who is a Ph.D. student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Ms. Lotus Yulian Zhou from China's Tsinghua University who is a a MPhil student in Bioengineering.

Prof. Hsing was deeply honored to co-host the visit of Prof. Shu Chien and Mrs. KC Hu Chien to HKUST. Prof. Chien delivered an inspiring IAS Distinguished Lecture "Perspectives in Biomedical Engineering" co-organized by IAS and Division of Biomedical Engineering. 

Congratulations for the group's recent work "Ultrasensitive Solution-phase Electrochemical Molecular Beacon-based DNA Detection with Signal Amplification by Exonuclease III-assisted Target Recycling" published as "Accelerated Article" in Analytical Chemistry in 2012.

The University announced Prof. Hsing's appointment as Founding Head of Division of Biomedical Engineering (http://bme.ust.hk) at HKUST

Prof. Hsing, Acting Head of BME Division, chaired the IAS and BME Distinguished Seminar "How to Hit HIV Where It Hurts" by Prof. Arup Chakraborty (MIT). 

A big congratulation to Prof. Xin WANG, a group alumnus and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2002, who has just been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University at Singapore.

A Big welcome to four new graduate students from China joining the group. They are Ms Danhui CHENG graduated from China's Tsinghua University who is a Ph.D. student in Bioengineering and a Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship (HKPFS) recipient, Mr. Chunlei YAO from Zhejiang University who is also a Ph.D. student in Bioengineering, Mr. Feng XUAN who graduated from Hunan University and is a Ph.D. student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Mr. Zhihua TAN who graduated from University of Science and Technology of China and is MPhil student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

Congratulations go to our new Doctor Wenting ZHAO, who has successfully defended her bioengineering Ph.D. thesis on Aug. 12.

Two abstract submissions to microTAS 2010 by Xiaoteng and Wang Jing et al. have been accepted for oral and poster presentations, respectively

Congratulations to Ms. Yange SUO, Ph.D., student in Chemical Engineering, for receiving a poster award in the "1st International Fuel Cell Summer Seminar for Young Scientists 2010" held in Aug. 2010 in Yamanashi JAPAN. She won the the award for a paper entitled "Impedance based mechanistic understanding of formic acid oxidation on Pd/C and synthesis of bimetallic Pd-Au nanoparticles for direct formic acid fuel cell application".

Prof. Hsing chaired an international conference on Microchemistry and Microsystems (ISMM 2010) on 28-30 May 2010 on HKUST campus

Ms. WANG Jing from Peking University to join the group as a new MPhil student in Bioengineering.

An mini-review article by Dr. Hsing and his Ph.D. student Xiaoteng Luo has been selected as a "hot article" in the Analyst, an RSC journal. The paper is entitled " Electrochemical Techniques on Sequence-Specific PCR Amplicon Detection for Point-of-Care Applications". This article is free to access for four weeks until Nov. 28, 2009.

We welcome Ms. WANG Jing from Peking University to join the group as a new MPhil student in Bioengineering.

Dr. Hsing has accepted the invitation from Wiley-VCH to become the first ever Chinese Regional Editor for the Journal Electroanalysis from 2010 onwards. Dr. Hsing will be responsible for the peer-review process and the decision-making for all manuscripts coming from Greater China (i.e., mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan).

HKUST's Bioengineering Program and Center for Bioengineering and Biomedical Devices will host the International Symposium on Microchemistry and Microsystems (ISMM) on May 28-30, 2009 on UST campus

Financial Secretary of The Hong Kong SAR Government Mr. John TSANG delivered a speech in the International Conference on Synthetic Biology (SB4.0) on HKUST campus on Oct. 10, 2008.

Our group's research "Electrochemistry-based Real Time PCR on a Microchip" has been highlighted by the American Chemical Society (January 16 ACS News Service Weekly PressPac)

Congratulations to a new Doctor of the group: Dr. Stephen YEUNG, who completed his Ph.D. in January 2008

Congratulations to our group's Dr. Allen FENG who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on Sep. 7, 2007

We welcome three new Ph.D. graduate students Ms. XU Jingjing (Fudan U.), Ms. SUO Yange (Wuhan U.) and Mr. LIN Li (Zhejiang U.) joining the group in Fall 2007.

Dr. Hsing, Guest Professor of Sichuan U, visited School of Chemical Engineering In Sichuan U on April 8-10, 2007

We welcome new graduate students Mr. Xiaoteng LUO (Ph.D. student)

and Ms. Senki CHAN (MPhil. student) joining the group  in Fall 2006.

Dr. Thomas Ming Hung Lee, a Ph.D. graduate of the group, has started

his faculty career at the Department of Health Technology and Informatics of

the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as Assistant Professor.

Summer party in Prof. Hsing's group on June 17 (Saturday) 2006

Congratulations to Dr. Zhigang Shao, a former postdoctoral associate and

a Professor in the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,

being included in the "100 Talents Program Recipients"  in the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Dr. Hsing gave an invited presentation at the Workshop on Biomedical Engineering organized by HKU on April 29, 2006.

 a symposium of DNA-based Nanoscale Integration to be held in Jena Germany.

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Group Xmas Party on Dec. 18 (Sunday) 2005 in Prof. Hsing's Home !!

Dr. Hsing gave an invited presentation on March 9 in the Hugo-AP 2006 conference in Taipei.

Shanghai's East China Normal University confers the title of Guest Professor upon Dr. Hsing in January 2005.

Dr. Hsing gave a Fuel Cell Seminar at the Castle Peak Power Station of CLP Hong Kong on Dec. 15, 2004

Dr. Hsing receives an honorary appointment of Guest Research Fellow at the

Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT), Chinese Academy of Sciences

Chief Executive, HKSAR Government Hon. Mr. Tung Chee Hwa visited Nanotube Fuel Cell Demonstration on Sep. 5. 2003