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Newly funded by US National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards co-led by Prof. Victor OK Li and Dr. Jacqueline CK Lam


  1. HKU-led Team Wins 2024 US NAM Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award: A Large Language Model (LLM)-driven Approach for Advancing Low-cost Timely Speech-based Late Onset Alzheimer’s Disease (LOAD) Prediction
  2. HKU-led Team Wins 2023 US NAM Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award: An Integrated Graph Convolutional Network Multimodal Platform (GCN-MP) for Early Detection and Prediction of Late Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
  3. HKU-led Team Wins 2022 US NAM Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award: AI-driven causal model to determine upstream definitive genetic biomarkers for early detection of Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
  4. HKU-led Team Wins 2021 US NAM Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award: A Directed Graph Neural Network-based Drug-Repurposing Approach to Identify a Lead Combination of Drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease (HKU Press Release) (HKU 新聞稿)

    Videos prepared for the US NAM Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards

Prof. Victor Li


  1. Project Coordinator and Co-PI, RGC-TBR, Big data for smart and personalized air pollution monitoring and health management (HKD 50M) (TBR Pamphlet - PDF)
  2. Project Coordinator and Co-PI, RGC-CRF, Smart Grid (HKD 4.85M)
  3. Co-PI, RGC-TBR, Sustainable power delivery structures for high renewables (HKD 47.12M)

Dr. Jacqueline Lam


  1. Co-PI, RGC-TBR, Big data for smart and personalized air pollution monitoring and health management (HKD 50M)
  2. Principal Investigator, RGC-GRF, Technology Empowerment and Household Energy Consumption Behaviors in Hong Kong: An Interdisciplinary Study (HKD 1.39M)
  3. Lead Co-I, RGC-PPR, Analyzing Stakeholders’ Views on Environmental Issues through Text Analysis -- An Interdisciplinary Approach Using Computational Content Analysis (HKD 0.84M)
  4. Lead Co-I, RGC-SPPR, Effective Nuclear Safety Governance for Hong Kong and Guangdong China: A Stakeholder Trust-based Model (HKD 3.2M)
  5. Lead Co-I, RGC-PPR, Managing the Transition towards the Low-carbon Economy: Stakeholder Engagement for Technological Environmental Innovation Decision-making in Hong Kong (HKD 0.57M)
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