The genetic engineering team of undergraduate students of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), including Miss Liu Jiaxun, a 3rd year student in the BSc in Biomedical Sciences Programme of the School of Biomedical Sciences (SBS), was awarded a Gold medal at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) 2019 Giant Jamboree held on 31 October to 4 November 2019 in Boston, U.S.A.

The 2019 CUHK iGEM team consists of 12 students majoring in interdisciplinary fields from SBS, School of Life Sciences, and Department of Biomedical Engineering. In the awarded project named “Banana Savior: The X Sense”, a rapid test for a new disease Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW) is designed with a hope that the novel design can help farmers in Africa and quarantine departments to realise early detection of the disease and help stop it from spreading.

Miss Liu Jiaxun is the awardee of Lo Kwee-Seong Biomedical Research Fund – Activity Award, which aims to recognize her contribution and support her participation in the activity. We sincerely congratulate Miss Liu on his exceptional academic performance and wish her every success in her future academic endeavors.

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由香港中文大學（中大）跨學院本科生組成的基因工程隊伍，成員包括生物醫學學院劉佳珣小姐，在2019年10月31日至11月4日於美國波士頓舉行的2019國際遺傳工程機器設計（iGEM）世界賽中榮獲金獎。

研究團隊的12位學生來自本學院、生命科學學院及生物醫學工程學系，他們的研究項目為「香蕉救星：細菌性凋萎病菌的快速檢測」（Banana Savior: The X Sense），期望幫助非洲農夫和各國檢疫部門及早發現該香蕉病菌，以阻截其擴散。

本學院劉佳珣小姐為羅桂祥生物醫學研究基金（活動獎項）的得獎者，以表揚她在項目中的貢獻及支持她的參與。我們衷心祝賀劉同學的傑出表現，並祝願她日後在學術上繼續取得佳績。

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