December 11, 2021 – Huajian, Matthew and Yunong of the team presented at this year’s State Key Laboratory of Liver Research (SKLLR) Internal Research Meeting. Morning well spent sharing our work and also learning about other liver disease-related studies! Congratulations to Matthew on securing one of the three Best Oral Presentation Awards and Yunong on securing the Best Poster Presentation Award. Proud of you all!
Awards
RGC Research Fellow Scheme 2021/22
November 11, 2021 – Research Grants Council (RGC) held an award presentation ceremony to honor academics for their research achievements. Very honored to be one of the recipients of the Research Fellow Scheme this year. The local newspaper Sing Tao Daily also did a cover of the news interviewing some of the award recipients with the article published December 6, 2021. Read all about it here!
25th Research Postgraduate Symposium, HKUMed
Congratulations to our RPG students for their fantastic presentations and awards at the 25th RPG Symposium! Very well done. Keep up the good work 👍
Best Oral Presentation Awards:
Jane LOONG Ho Chun (PhD student)
Matthew WONG Tsz Lam (PhD student)
Best Poster Presentation Award:
Jia Jian LOH (PhD student)
SKLLR Internal Research Meeting 2020
Congrats to Jane on winning one of the three Best Presentation Awards at the State Key Laboratory of Liver Research (SKLLR) Internal Research Meeting held on November 28th 2020 at HKU. A morning well spent, learning about 13 interesting HCC related projects presented by PhDs and PDFs! Well done Jane 👍
Congrats to Noel!
Congrats to Noel on receiving one of the Outstanding Poster Presentation Awards at the 2019 Hong Kong Inter-University Postgraduate Symposium in Biochemical Sciences held on June 8th. Well done!
23rd RPG Symposium – Congrats to Noel!
Warm congratulations to our PhD student Noelia Che on being awarded one of three Best Oral Presentation Awards at this year’s HKU Faculty of Medicine’s Research Postgraduate Symposium held from 5-7 December 2018. We are proud of you! Job well done!
Congrats to Eric on his EACR Bursary!
Our post-doc Eric Wong was awarded one of five European Association for Cancer Research (EACR)-Worldwide Cancer Research Meeting Bursaries and presented his work at the EACR – Mechanisms to Therapies: Innovations in Cancer Metabolism meeting that was held in Bilbao, Spain from 9-11 October 2018.
ISSCR 2018
Stephanie gave an invited talk at the Concurrent Session on Stem Cells & Cancer at the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) Annual Meeting, held in Melbourne, Australia from 20-23 June 2018. Thank you for the opportunity ISSCR! Our postdoctoral fellow Lei Zhou (Lena) also shared her latest research data in the form of a poster and was recognized with an ISSCR Travel Award. Congrats Lena!
The Liver Week 2018
PhD student Noelia Che recognized with a Travel Award at the 2018 Liver Week conference that was held in Incheon, South Korea from June 14-16th. Congrats Noel!
Ton Duc Thang University Scientific Prize 2017
Rising Star Award of the Ton Duc Thang University Scientific Prize 2017 was presented to Stephanie Ma on January 20 2018 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
The SMA Lab 