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South China Morning Post
24-05-2025
- General
- South China Morning Post
Top 10: If you could add one rule to your school, what would it be and why?
This week's question: If you could redesign a spot in Hong Kong for teens, what would you change, and why? To take part, drop us a line via this form by 12pm on Wednesday, May 28. Nicole Chan Cheuk-ying, 15, Shatin Tsung Tsin Secondary School: Respect and be friendly to your fellow students. While we often emphasise the importance of respecting our teachers, many people seem to overlook the need to respect their classmates. Our schoolmates play an important role in our school lives, so why not value and appreciate them as well? Megan Lam, 11, Good Hope Primary School cum Kindergarten: Backstabbing should be banned because it arises from hate and jealousy, causing even the closest friends to betray one another. When a friend reveals your secrets to a teacher, it is incredibly hurtful and undermines trust. Promoting honesty and loyalty is essential for creating a positive school environment. Sana Zaman Wong Sum-wai, 14, PLK Mrs Ma Kam Ming Cheung Fook Sien College: I would implement a daily 20-minute 'Calm Corner Time' for mindfulness activities such as meditation and deep breathing. Given that students struggle with sleep and concentration due to stress, this practice will promote relaxation and enhance overall well-being, fostering a positive school environment.
South China Morning Post
12-03-2025
- Health
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong biotech leader forging ahead with groundbreaking cancer therapies
Great minds blazing a trail: five women are leading the way in the realm of science. See our other features on Megan Lam and Florence Chan Advertisement Gina Jiang took an unconventional route to the top. The daughter of an orthopaedic surgeon and an oil painter, the 44-year-old Taiwanese-Canadian has a degree in general medicine from Peking University but chose not to be a medical doctor or clinical researcher. Instead, Jiang has built a 20-plus-year career finding ways to make new therapies available to patients. She is the one who figures out what's needed, who's needed and what hurdles need to be overcome for treatments to go from the lab to hospital bedsides – otherwise known as translational medicine. 'It's like leading an orchestra,' says Jiang, who coordinates a team of scientists, medical manufacturing experts, engineers and clinicians at the Hong Kong Institute of Biotechnology (HKIB) that ensures a multimillion-dollar cancer therapy called CAR-T cell treatment is available in the city. CAR T-cell therapies involve T cells that have been genetically engineered to attack cancer cells. Illustration: Shutterstock Jiang is the managing director of the HKIB – a non-profit manufacturing laboratory affiliated with Chinese University – which produces 'living' immunotherapy drugs tailor-made from a cancer patient's own white blood cells. The treatment is currently being administered to a handful of patients at the Prince of Wales and Hong Kong Children's hospitals. It's an option for those who have not responded to conventional treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation. The HKIB also produces other cell and gene therapy products, biologics (medications developed from organic life) and traditional Chinese medicine. Cell therapy isn't a miracle cure. It's still ongoing and being studied, but the hope it brings and the visible improvements I've witnessed motivates me and makes me excited Gina Jiang Jiang has built several medical technology companies in Silicon Valley and Taipei, including FGMi Inc, which focuses on analysing patient needs to fast-track research into application. Design Thinking Foundry, a social enterprise she co-founded in 2017, puts patient experience at the centre of designing medical technology. First sparks
South China Morning Post
09-03-2025
- Health
- South China Morning Post
How Megan Lam transformed mental health in Asia with AI
Great minds blazing a trail: meet the women who are leading the way in the realm of science and invention. Advertisement 'I only do mental health. This is the core theme of my life. I can't do anything else,' Megan Lam says of her work. She is joking, but it is also the truth. Lam, 32, is the co-founder of Neurum Health, a B2B company that specialises in digital mental health through artificial intelligence and machine learning. Its goal, she says, is to provide personalised mental-health support for the workforce. 'From losing family members to suicide and from my own struggles,' she says, 'I was just desperate to find a way for every person to get the right mental-health support that meets them exactly where they are.' Lam recently stepped down as CEO of Neurum Health and as interim executive director of youth mental health NGO KELY Support Group, to focus on her own health and well-being. 'I have to walk the walk,' she says. Advertisement The Yale alumna jumped from a research fellowship at the American university's School of Medicine into entrepreneurship to start Neurum Health in 2018. Five years later, she was chosen as a fellow of the Cartier Women's Initiative, earning an Impact Award for her work.
