CityU members meet with Aurora

On 2 March 2021, CityU representatives met with Aurora Healthcare US Corp (“Aurora”) to explore potential research and development collaborations.  The meeting with Aurora marked CityU’s dedication to fostering interactions and collaborations with international enterprises.  

Visiting guests comprised Mrs Olivia HO CHENG (CEO and President of Aurora Healthcare US Corp), Mr Simon SZETO (Director of SBI China Capital Financial Services Limited) and Dr Raymond LEUNG (CEO and Founder of Altai Technologies Ltd.). 

CityU representatives comprised Dr Laura LO (Associate Vice-President, Chinese Mainland Affairs Office), Prof S. Joe QIN (Chair Professor of Data Science; Dean, School of Data Science; Director, Hong Kong Institute for Data Science), Dr Condon LAU (Associate Professor, Department of Physics), Dr Qingpeng ZHANG (Associate Professor, School of Data Science), Dr Bernard CHIU (Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering), Dr Xinyue LI (Assistant Professor, School of Data Science) and Dr Yixuan YUAN (Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering). 

Both CityU and Aurora share their research interests and needs after introducing themselves. 

“It is our honour to have Aurora to meet with us.  We are absolutely interested in research development in breast MRI technology with the data science approaches, no matter in making use of machine learning technique to help out imaging.  All we would like to see is to bring societal impact,” said Prof Qin.

“We look forward to developing research collaborations with CityU, especially with the young professors.  We need their ideas and research methodology, incorporating with the data science approaches, to enlighten us on the latest development on breast MRI technology.  What we would like to see is how our patients and women can be benefitted from the new breast MRI technology,” said Mrs Olivia Cheng.

On 8 March 2021, i.e. International Women’s Day, Aurora has officially commissioned the first mobile Breast MRI trailer at Chengdu, Sichuan, China.  The Company expects to deploy the first mobile Breast MRI trailer in Hong Kong next year. 

About Aurora Healthcare US Corp (adapted from Aurora website)

Aurora Healthcare US Corp. (“Aurora”), a privately-held company based in Massachusetts, manufactures the only MRI system dedicated to breast imaging for screening and diagnostic indications.  The integration of Aurora’s multiple innovations in hardware and software result in MRI studies with higher resolution and fewer artifacts and anatomic distortions that typical general-use MRI.  The Aurora Breast Clinic (ABC) embeds Aurora’s technological leadership at the core of a comprehensive diagnostic and survivorship care system.  Building on its US foundation and after recent China FDA clearance, Aurora is expanding into China from its base of operations in Chengdu, Sichuan, where it has already introduced that first mobile breast MRI screening clinic in China.

Website: https://www.auroramri.com/