Hong Kong’s third medical school denies poaching veteran HKU professor

South China Morning Post28 October 2026, 09:03 UTCHong Kong

Hong Kong’s third medical school has dismissed allegations of talent poaching after recruiting a veteran haematologist with nearly three decades of service at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). On Wednesday, Professor Anskar Leung Yu-hung met the press at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in his capacity as the new medical school’s senior associate dean of medicine. “The opportunity to be part of a team to [build] a new medical school from ground zero, with a new...

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