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The Latest Issue of IAS Newsletter Released
12 Feb 2015
The HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is committed to providing a knowledge hub to nurture talents in driving cutting edge research. This triannual IAS Newsletter shares the latest stories of our people and work.

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IAS Visiting Professor Shuji Nakamura received Nobel Prize
7 Oct 2014
IAS extends its heartiest congratulations to Prof Shuji NAKAMURA, IAS Visiting Professor, for being awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for “the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”. Prof Nakamura is widely recognized as pioneer in light emitters based on wide-bandgap semiconductors. With the invention of the blue laser diode and the blue, green and white light-emitting diodes (LED) which indicate major breakthrough in lighting technology, Prof Nakamura is honored as the “Father of blue LED”.

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The Latest Issue of IAS Newsletter Released
15 Sep 2014
The HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is committed to providing a knowledge hub to nurture talents in driving cutting edge research. This triannual IAS Newsletter shares the latest stories of our people and work.

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HKUST IAS-Scripps Scientists Discover Metamorphosed Protein-Building Enzymes as New Protein Therapeutics
21 Jul 2014
The research team led by Prof Paul SCHIMMEL, IAS Visiting Professor and Ernest and Jean Hahn Professor of Molecular Biology and Chemistry at TSRI (California and Florida) and Prof Mingjie ZHANG, IAS Senior Fellow and Kerry Holdings Professor of Science of the Division of Life Science at IAS HKUST-Scripps R&D Laboratory collaborating with biotech company, aTyr Pharma has found 250 new proteins which highlights an intriguing oddity of protein evolution as well as a potentially valuable new class of therapeutic proteins.

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IAS Fellow Awarded the Morningside Gold Medal of Mathematics
16 Jul 2013
Prof He Xuhua, IAS Fellow and Associate Professor of Mathematics at HKUST was awarded the prestigious 2013 Morningside Gold Medal of Mathematics. The announcement was made at the opening of the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM) in Taipei, Taiwan. Prof He is the only scholar in Hong Kong receiving this prestigious award this year.

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