In April 2024, Macau University of Science and Technology established the “MUST Institute of Innovation & Technology” in the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin.
The Institute hosts the “Centre for Healthy Medical R&D and Translation” (hereinafter “the Centre”), led by the MUST Precision Regenerative Medicine Research Centre (PRMRC) under Prof. Tam Kwong-Hang, in conjunction with other laboratories of the Institute, including: the State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine (Hengqin Branch); the State Key Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Sciences (Hengqin Branch); and several university-level frontier laboratories (Hengqin Branches), jointly building a “Hengqin-Macao synergy, translation-oriented” research highland.
Location
Floors 21–22, Building 7, Hengqin International Science & Innovation Centre
2515 Huanbei Road, Hengqin New Area, Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
Two Core Platforms
Platform | Focus | Key Capabilities |
Molecular Biomedicine Laboratory | Patient-sample-driven stem-cell &organoid R&D |
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Big-Data Analytics Hub | Multi-omics mining & target discovery |
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Integrated Innovation Loop
The Hengqin site focuses on the translational pipeline “clinical problem → stem-cell/organoid model → drug screening → data feedback”;
the Macao headquarters investigates into basic research “cell/animal mechanism → target discovery → early assessment” ;
Complementary resources at the two locales forge a full “mechanism-to-clinic” innovation chain, accelerating the translation of precision regenerative medicine achievements.
