You are welcome to attend the seminar, please find the details below:

Seminar : How to Write a Winning Grant Proposal?

Date: Jul 29, 2026 (Wed)
Time: 3:00pm – 5:30pm
Venue: Seminar Room 5, 6/F, HKUMed Academic Building, 3 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Mode: In-Person
Enquires: Tel: 81000538；Email: scmevent@hku.hk
Registration: Here

Speaker:
Professor Jason, Zhe-Sheng Chen
Professor, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
St. John's University, USA

Moderator:
Professor Hai Yong Chen
Assistant Professor, Assistant Director (Clinical Affairs)
School of Chinese Medicine, HKU

3:00 – 5:00pm

Abstract:

This interactive brainstorming workshop is designed for early-career researchers and faculty members seeking to enhance their grant-writing skills. Professor Chen will share proven strategies for crafting clear, compelling, and fundable proposals. Topics include formulating a strong hypothesis, structuring the specific aims, developing a robust research strategy, and avoiding common pitfalls. Participants will engage in hands-on activities to critique sample proposals and brainstorm ideas. By the end of this workshop, attendees will have a practical framework to improve their next grant application and increase their chances of success.

About the speaker:

Professor Jason Zhe-Sheng Chen is a tenured Professor at St. John's University, USA, where he serves as the Director of the Tumor Pharmacology Laboratory in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and the Dean of the Institute of Biotechnology. He is also a doctoral supervisor. He is a globally renowned scholar in the field of multidrug resistance reversal in cancer, with his research primarily focusing on the mechanisms of tumor drug resistance and the development of resistance reversal agents. To date, he has published over 550 SCI-indexed papers, which have been cited more than 40,000 times, with an H-index of 98. He has been listed in both the "Career-Long Scientific Impact Ranking" and the "2023 Scientific Impact Ranking". He has been invited to deliver over 400 academic presentations at international conferences and academic institutions worldwide. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Drug Resistance Updates (5-year impact factor: 18.1), and holds editorial positions—including Editor-in-Chief, Senior Editor, Specialty Editor, and Associate Editor —for 8 other journals. He also serves as a peer reviewer for over 200 journals, including Science and Nature. He is an expert grant reviewer for funding agencies globally, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), and funding agencies in France, New Zealand, Hungary, Poland, the Netherlands, Canada, and Hong Kong.

5:00 – 5:30pm
Expertise on Clinical Studies for GRF/ECS Proposals and the Biostatistics and Clinical Research Methodology Unit (BCRMU)’s Downstream Data Analysis Support

Speaker:
Dr Helen Zhi
Director, Biostatistics and Clinical Research Methodology Unit,
School of Public Health, HKU