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Hong Kong excels at medical research. So what is holding it back?

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Sunday, October 18, 2026 at 11:00 AM · 1 min read
Hong Kong excels at medical research. So what is holding it back? — South China Morning Post, Dunedin Health news
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In the first of a four-part Health Matters wellness series on frontier medicine in Hong Kong, Elizabeth Cheung looks into how the city can turn world-class research into real-world treatments and what it needs to become a global biomedical innovation hub. Raymond Tong Kai-yu spent a decade overcoming challenges in cost and production to develop a device that could change lives: a robotic hand that helps stroke patients regain mobility and relearn everyday movements. The Hong Kong biomedical...

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