
Professor Dennis Yuk-ming LO, President of The Hong Kong Academy of Sciences, President of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, has been elected as foreign members of the Academia Europaea, in recognition of his distinguished contributions to clinical care and medical innovation for the betterment of global health.
Established in 1988, the Academia Europaea is the pan-European Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Letters. It comprises over 5,500 members, including nearly 90 Nobel Prize laureates. Its objective is the advancement and propagation of excellence in scholarship in the humanities; law; the economic, social and political sciences; mathematics; medicine; and all branches of natural and technological sciences, for the public benefit and the advancement of public education.