Potential cancer treatment project wins Hong Kong's first InnoHealth Cup
發佈日期: 2025-07-21 22:08
TVB News
A potential cancer treatment, Alzheimer's early detection, and AI-powered Chinese traditional medicine advice.
These innovative medical projects were all showcased by three teams of secondary school students today at the University of Hong Kong.
They were the top three winners of the Hong Kong InnoHealth Cup.
After several rounds of competition, teams from Kowloon True Light School, St Paul's Convent School and King's College emerged as the top three winners of the city's first InnoHealth Cup.
The champion team, Kowloon True Light School, applied artificial intelligence and big data to develop a new drug that may help treat cancer.
The team hopes to show that peptides -- amino acid chains that can inhibit protein molecules in cells through binding -- can prevent cancer cell proliferation.
Through AI analysis, the peptide molecule is designed by the students to bind EGFR, or Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor, a protein found on cell surfaces that helps them grow and divide.
Kowloon True Light School student Chan Tsz-wai said: "We knew that AI tools, like RFDiffusion or AlphaFold, can help designing peptide sequence to make something specifically target our regions. If we have the chance, we may do some clinical trials or other experiments for us to engineer the drug."
St Paul's Convent students, meanwhile, developed an early-detection app to target Alzheimer's disease, helping individuals assess the risk of diagnosing the illness and promote regular screenings.
Surrounding our team members, there are also some relatives that are becoming older and they would show some signs of deteriorating memory. We would like to identify whether it is some rapidly deteriorating problems, such as dementia or Alzheimer's. And since we know that Alzheimer's disease is not currently curable yet, so we feel like an early-intervention is the most important.
King's College's students created an AI system to allow patients to receive personalised health advice from a smart traditional Chinese medicine doctor.
The winning teams will join a summer course at HKUMed and Queen Mary Hospital to obtain clinical experience under medical tutors.
