CUHK Professor Dennis Lo Receives Future Science Prize – Life Science Prize, the Chinese Version of Nobel Prize
19 September 2016
Prof. Dennis Yuk-ming LO (Fellow of S.H. Ho College) from the Faculty of Medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) received today the Future Science Prize – Life Science Prize for his seminal contribution to the widely-used noninvasive prenatal test based on the original discovery of fetal DNA in maternal blood which has benefited millions of pregnant women globally. The Future Science Prize, seen as the Chinese version of Nobel Prize, was co-founded by a group of scientists and entrepreneurs in mainland China. Awardees are selected by a committee of nine members from different scientific fields for their original and innovative scientific researches which have a long-term international impact and significance.
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