Research Institutes & Centres

Academic departments of the University are actively engaged in research in a wide range of disciplines. The University also has an array of research institutes and research centres specializing in interdisciplinary research of the highest quality. In addition, smaller research units have been set up by individual Faculties and departments. The University has also established a number of joint research units in partnership with external academic institutions to pool resources for the advancement of knowledge in different subject areas.

Success of research institutes and research centres will be evaluated against various indicators, including research activities carried out, external research grants received, donations received, publications and conference papers affiliated, and other impacts generated.

Research Institutes

• Asian Institute of Supply Chains & Logistics
  • Cyber Logistics, Centre of
  • Logistics Technologies and Supply Chain Optimization, Centre for
  • Supply Chain Integration and Service Innovation, Shenzhen, Center for
  • Supply Chain Management, Center for
• Asia-Pacific Studies, Hong Kong Institute of
  • Chinese Family Studies, Centre for
  • Economic Research Centre
  • Gender Research Centre
  • Global China Research Programme
  • International Affairs Research Centre
  • Public Policy Research Centre
  • Social and Political Development Studies, Centre for
  • Social Innovation Studies, Centre for
  • Urban and Regional Development, Research Centre for
  • Urban Innovations, Center for
  • Youth Studies, Centre for
• Biotechnology (CUIB), Institute of
• Brain and Mind Institute
• Chinese Medicine, Institute of
• Chinese Studies (ICS), Institute of
  • Contemporary Chinese Culture (RCCCC), Research Centre for
  • D.C. Lau Research Centre for Chinese Ancient Texts
  • T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre (CLRC)
• CUHK Hong Kong—Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Research Institute (Futian)
• CUHK Jockey Club Institute of Ageing
• CUHK T Stone Robotics Institute
  • Robotics in Construction and Architecture, Centre for
• Diabetes and Obesity, Hong Kong Institute of
  • Yao Chung Kit Diabetes Assessment Centre
• Digestive Disease, Institute of
  • S.H. Ho Centre for Digestive Health
• Educational Research (HKIER), Hong Kong Institute of
  • Development of Educational Leadership (HKCDEL), Hong Kong Centre for the
  • Learning Sciences and Technologies (CLST), Centre for
  • Research and Development of Putonghua Education (CRDPE), Centre for
• Environment, Energy and Sustainability, Institute of
• Gerald Choa Neuroscience Institute
• Health Equity, CUHK Institute of
• Heart and Vascular Institute
• Hong Kong Cancer Institute
  • Cancer Drug Testing Unit (CDTU)
  • Cancer Epigenetics / Tumour Virology Laboratory
  • Cancer Signaling Laboratory
  • Tumor Marker Laboratory
• Hong Kong Hub of Paediatric Excellence
• Human Communicative Research, Institute of
• Institute of Medical Intelligence and XR
• Integrative Medicine, Hong Kong Institute of
• Intelligent Design and Manufacturing, Institute of
• Lau Chor Tak Institute of Global Economics and Finance
• Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences
• Lui Che Woo Institute of Innovative Medicine
  • Cardiovascular Genomics and Medicine, Centre for
• Mathematical Sciences, The Institute of
• Network Coding, Institute of
• Optical Science and Technology, Institute of
  • Advanced Research in Photonics, Centre for
  • Optical Sciences, Centre of
• Peter Hung Pain Research Institute
• Plant Molecular Biology and Agricultural Biotechnology, Institute of
• Quantum Information Science and Technology, Hong Kong Institute of
• Shenzhen Research Institute
  • Bilingualism and Language Disorders Laboratory
  • Biological Engineering Laboratory
  • Biomedical Sciences Core Laboratory, School of
  • Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory (Shenzhen)
  • China Economic and Policy, Research Project Office on
  • Chinese Language and Linguistics, Research Centre for
  • Clinical Trials and Biostatistics Laboratory
  • Colloid and Surface Chemistry Laboratory
  • CUHK T Stone Robotics Institute (Shenzhen)
  • CUHK-Shenzhen Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck (ENT) Institute
  • Digital Visual Entertainment Laboratory
  • Education Research and School Improvement, Centre for
  • Functional Edible Fungi Laboratory, Food Research Centre
  • Functional Genomics and Biostatistical Computing Laboratory
  • Gastrointestinal Cancer Biology & Therapeutics Laboratory
  • Gene Regulation and Drug Research and Development Laboratory
  • Housing Innovations (Shenzhen), Centre for
  • Inflammatory Diseases Laboratory
  • Laboratory for Linguistics, Communication Disorders and Biomedical Sciences
  • Medical Image Computing (RC-MIC) (Shenzhen), Research Centre for
  • Medicine Core Laboratory, Faculty of
  • Metabolic Diseases and Regenerative Medicine Laboratory
  • Network Cording (Shenzhen), Institute of
  • Pearl River Delta Social Reaserch Centre
  • Physics and Materials Research Laboratory
  • Public Health and Primary Care (Shenzhen), Center of
  • R&D Laboratory of Space Medicine and Engineering Technology
  • Rich Media Big Data Key Laboratory
  • Smart Hardware Design Laboratory
  • Spatiotemporal Intelligence and Sustainable Development, Laboratory of
  • State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology (CUHK) Shenzhen Base
  • State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China (CUHK) Shenzhen Base
  • Supply Chain Integration and Service Innovation, Research Project Office on
  • Trusted and Intelligent Computing Laboratory
  • Virtual Geographic Environment Laboratory
  • Wireless Technology and Dynamic Information Laboratory
• Shun Hing Institute of Advanced Engineering (SHIAE)
• Space and Earth Information Science, Institute of
• Stanley Ho Big Data Decision Analytics Research Centre
• The Asia-Pacific Institute of Business
• Theoretical Computer Science and Communications, Institute of
• Theoretical Physics, Institute of
• Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (iTERM), Institute for