The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen has officially announced the establishment of the School of Life and Health Sciences on the November 14th 2018, which is the fourth college of the CUHK-Shenzhen after the School of Management and Economics (SME), the School of Sciences and Engineering (SSE), and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), with educational programs for baccalaureate to doctoral degrees.

The School of Life and Health Sciences (LHS) at CUHK-Shenzhen is to pursue excellence in learning, discovery and innovation in life and health sciences for the benefit of human health and well-being. LHS strives to be an internationally recognized life and health science school that offers in spiring educational opportunities for students, conducts interdisciplinary research with global impact, and serves the life and health science profession and the community with distinction. The school's curriculum will integrate life sciences, health sciences, scientific research and bioengineering design, aiming to cultivate a group of leaders and innovators in this field through a rigorous and diversified education model.

Professor Richard Ye, Founding Dean of LHS

Presidential Chair Professor

On February 1st 2019, Professor Richard Ye is officially appointed as the Founding Dean of LHS. Professor Ye graduated from Shanghai Second Medical College (Now is Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine) in 1982 and received his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, USA in 1988. Since 1989, he has served as an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor at the Scripps Research Institute and the University of Illinois College of Medicine. His research projects have been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health for 25 years. His main research interests include signal transduction of G protein-coupled receptors and their roles in innate immune cells, inflammatory mechanisms and pathological models, and the discovery of related drug targets. He has collaborated with Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, GSK and other companies on new drug discovery. He was granted 2 US patents, 1 Chinese patent as the first inventor, and 2 joint inventor patents. He has published 198 research papers on SCI journals that were cited for more than 10,000 times. In 2010, Professor Ye returned to China as Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Dean of the School of Pharmacy. From January 2015 to January 2019, he served as Chair Professor at the University of Macau. Other Academic activities includes an Associate Editor of THE FASEB Journal, Associate Editor of Pharmacological Reviews, Associate Editor of Physiology Reviews, and editorial boards of the British Journal of Pharmacology and Molecular Pharmacology.