Prof Jack Cheng was the guest of honour at the 41st HKOA Congress held at the HK Convention and Exhibition Centre and delivered a beautiful lecture on the possibilities of the amazing Osteocyte.

Dr Bernard Yung won the Best Trainee Paper award, while Ms Rufina Lau won the Best Associate Member Paper Award. Dr Michael Ong, Dr Xin He, and Dr George Law won the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Paper Prizes in Sports Medicine.

Despite the pandemic, our CUHK Ortho team was still able to present 56 papers, making up ~36% of the entire congress.

On 27th Nov. 2021, the Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association named the winners of the 7th Hong Kong University Student Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition cum National & Greater Bay Area Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competitions (HKSAR) Awards. The awards recognized the innovation and star-up projects from the all the universities in Hong Kong.

The Chief Executive of Hong Kong SAR Ms. Carrie, Yuet-ngor. Lam Cheng, and the Deputy Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Dr. YIN Zonghua have attended the ceremony.

The innovation project with the title of ‘Highly dynamic nanocomposite hydrogels self-assembled by metal ion-ligand coordination’ and the start-up project with the title of ‘MG MedCare® Bioactive functional wound dressing with Magnesium’ have been awarded the Second Prized of Life Science and the Third Prized of Startup of the 7th Hong Kong University Student Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition respectively. Meanwhile the MedCare® has also been awarded the Silver Prize of the 7th China International College Students’ Internet+ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.

These are great honours of the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology of CUHK since our ongoing research works are highly recognized domestically and internationally.

On November 3, the ceremony of the National Science & Technology Awards 2020 was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Professor Gang Li’s team and his collaborators from Air Force Medical University, Guangzhou Medical University, and Tianjin Zhongjin Biological Development Co. Ltd were honoured with the 2020 State Natural Science Award (SNSA) First-class award for the project entitled “Treatment system and key technology for bone defect repair in severe war trauma”.

In the past 20 years, Professor Li and his collaborators have worked closely and developed a novel classification system for serious bone defects and established four new technologies for the management of bone defects. The research team has achieved many breakthroughs. They are the first team in application of tissue engineering technology for bone regeneration in China. They are the inventors of the first bone graft with efficient anti-infection ability and bone formation activity. They are the first team to propose the theory of synchronous repair of bone and soft tissue composite defects, which has greatly increased the limb salvage rate and benefited the majority of patients. This prestigious award is a high recognition and praise for the past scientific research work.