2024 UMAGAZINE 29 • 澳大新語 25 UM’S DECADE OF ACHIEVEMENTS ON HENGQIN ISLAND • 遷校十年 揚帆千里 transport systems, and Macao’s first smart city virtual reality simulation and decision-making platform. The Faculty of Health Sciences was the first faculty to relocate to UM's new Hengqin campus. Since the relocation, UM has made significant achievements in precision medicine research. Prof Chuxia Deng, dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, says, ‘The new campus provides state-of-the-art facilities for biological sciences and medical research, which have enhanced our investigations into drug development, disease mechanisms, and in particular, cancer research. This has resulted in numerous internationally recognised research achievements.’ He adds that the faculty’s fruitful results in precision oncology research led to the Ministry of Education’s (MoE) approval for the establishment of the MoE Frontiers Science Center for Precision Oncology in late 2020. This centre is the first and so far the only Frontiers Science Center established by the central government in Hong Kong and Macao. Moreover, UM has established five joint laboratories with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Between 2019 and 2023, the university obtained approval to set up 12 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao joint laboratories. It has also set up over 20 joint laboratories in collaboration with enterprises, organisations, and other higher education institutions, which have expanded the scale and impact of UM’s research. Advancing Innovative Research Following its campus relocation, UM has enhanced its research infrastructure by establishing several new institutes. These entities are dedicated to advancing research in emerging fields, interdisciplinary areas, and disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. In 2017, UM established the Institute of Collaborative Innovation to integrate the humanities and social sciences with advanced technology. A strategic reorganisation in 2019 broadened the institute’s scope to include the Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, the Centre for Data Science, and the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The year 2019 also saw the establishment of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences. This institute has launched several schemes, including the Fellowship Scheme and the Excellence Publication Scheme, with the aim of fostering the development of world-class, interdisciplinary research teams in the humanities and social sciences. In addition, UM obtained approval to establish the Macao Centre for Research and Development in Advanced Materials in 2022. The centre focuses on research on new energy materials, eco-friendly materials, and materials for health protection, thereby driving forward the advanced materials industry. Over the past decade, various UM faculties have established research centres, such as the Centre for Studies of Translation, Interpreting and Cognition, the Centre for Constitutional Law and Basic Law Studies, the Centre for Regional Oceans, the Centre for Applied 澳大推動產學研發展，其中包括自動駕駛巴士。 UM is committed to promoting industry-academia collaboration, exemplified by the development of its autonomous bus.
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