Professor Sir Colin Blakemore (1944 - 2022)

What Hong Kong can do to avoid a total lockdown and a fourth wave of Covid-19 cases
What Hong Kong can do to avoid a total lockdown and a fourth wave of Covid-19 cases
South China Morning Post · 31 Jul 2020
Hong Kong registered a record-breaking of Covid-19 cases in July, pushing its total infections over 3,000 since its first coronavirus outbreak in late January. The Infectious Disease Modelling Group at the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) recently has developed a comprehensive computer model that can tell the pattern of disease transmission and helps to predict effective measures against a Fourth Wave in Hong Kong.


The Past, Present and Future of the Human Brain
The Past, Present and Future of the Human Brain
HKIAS News · 11 May 2020
Professor Sir Colin Blakemore, an acclaimed neuroscientist, presented a lecture titled “The Past, Present and Future of the Human Brain” as part of the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (HKIAS) Distinguished Lecture Series on Life Sciences at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) on 8 May 2020. This lecture is sponsored by a generous donation from the Kwang Hua Educational Foundation.


IAS Senior Fellow Professor Sir Colin Blakemore receives College of Optometrists award
IAS Senior Fellow Professor Sir Colin Blakemore receives College of Optometrists award
SAS London · 26 Jan 2018
Sir Colin Blakemore, professor of neuroscience and philosophy at the School of Advanced Study (SAS), University of London, has been awarded the President’s Research Medal, the College of Optometrists’ most prestigious honour. It was presented at the Wellcome Collection on 25 January when Professor Blakemore delivered the College’s Research Excellence Lecture, ‘A visual experience’, to a packed audience that included leading members of the optometric research community.