March 22, 2024 – Thankful for the opportunity to reconnect with Lena and Ming and to give a seminar at The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou this past March.
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HKU Outstanding Researcher Award 2022-23
March 16, 2024 – Ecstatic to be recognized by HKU with this year’s Outstanding Researcher Award and honored to be sharing the stage with my wonderful colleague David Li. I am particularly grateful for my team (past and present) for this would not have been possible without their hard work. Thank you to every one of you who has been on this journey with me.
A recap of the award ceremony can be found here.
YASHK YASS 2023-4
March 8, 2024 – Stephanie shared the team’s latest research at the first sub-conference of the Young Academy of Sciences Summit (YASS) held at CUHK. Under the theme “Life Science”, the sub-conference focused on emerging technologies in regenerative medicine and the application of stem cells in the treatment of diseases.
Congrats to Elok on her Croucher Studentship
A big round of applause to our new PhD student Elok on securing the prestigious Croucher Foundation Studentship! Well done!
Publication in Nat Commun
Congrats to Toni and Lena on their co-first author publication in Nature Communications!
It was a pleasure collaborating with the teams of Ming Liu of Guangzhou Medical University, XY Guan of HKUMed, Jun Yu of CUHK, Terence Lee of PolyU and Jing-Ping Yun of SYSU Cancer Centre.
8th HK-Shenzhen International Oncology Conference
Sept 24-25, 2023 – Advancing Cancer Prevention & Treatment in Greater Bay Areas
Happy to have the opportunity to participate in this conference organized by Prof. Anne Lee and Prof. XY Guan and shared about our recent cancer cell plasticity findings.
SKLLR 2023
Johnson presented his latest research findings at the State Key Laboratory of Liver Research (SKLLR) Annual Meeting held at JW Marriott on Nov 25, 2023. Well done! Again, a morning well spent learning about exciting HCC research work in the regional area.
Yellow Webinar 2023
Stephanie shared her team’s latest work on SPINK1-induced tumor lineage plasticity in HCC at the Yellow Webinar hosted by the Italian Liver Foundation on Nov 20, 2023.
Publication in ACS Nano
Our new study uncovered a critical role for URB1-AS1, highly expressed in sorafenib-resistant HCC samples, to be key in mitigating sorafenib-induced ferroptosis through inducing ferritin phase separation and reducing cellular free iron content. Congrats to Yuan Gao, our former PDF who joined us with support from the HK Scholars Program. Read all about it in ACS Nano.
Singapore 2023
Nov 6 to 8, 2023 Frontiers in Cancer Science (FCS)
Nov 9, 2023 Visit to National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS)
Thank you to the organizers at CSI and Prof Bin Teh of NCCS for the invitation and hospitality. Happy to have the opportunity to share our group’s latest work, catch up with old friends and meet new PIs.
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