LKS Faculty of Medicine

LKS Faculty of Medicine is the longest established institution of higher education in Hong Kong since 1887 and is well-known as a pioneer in medical education and training and research, while proudly upholding a reputation for morality, vision and care. 

The Faculty currently offers seven undergraduate full-time programmes to approximately 3,500 students, and has approximately 2,200 postgraduate students studying across four research postgraduate programmes and numerous taught doctors/masters and postgraduate diploma/certificate programmes.

• State key Labs & WHO Reference Lab
• Partnerships & Exchange opportunities with world-class institutions
• Funded 200+ students for international exchange since 2007
• 135+ years of medical education history

Our Faculty is at the frontier of medical research, driven by the pursuit of discovery and advancement in medicine. We have established 10 Strategic Research Areas, which open new domains of discovery and promote cross-disciplinary investigation and collaboration.

• 70+ researchers among world's top 1% scholars
• Outstanding grants and publications records
• 600+ highly cited papers 

Multi-disciplinary research in a wide spectrum of clinical & basic sciences research area

• Cancer Biology & Therapeutics
• Chinese Medicine
• Clinical Medicine
• Data Science/Big Data/AI Applications in Biomedicine & Health
• Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Global Health
• Nursing
• Pharmacology & Pharmacy
• Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine
• Structural, Synthetic & Computational Biology

and many more...