27-28 Jun 2025 – Wonderful time spent in Nanjing making new friends, meeting colleagues and touring the beautiful city with the lab. Thank you to the organizers, Prof Jie Li and Prof Walter Seto, for putting this forum together and for hosting our stay.

11-14 Jun 2025 – ISSCR Annual Meeting in HK!

I had the fortunate opportunity to speak in the concurrent session on ‘Metabolism, Stem Cells and Cancer” under the theme of “Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer” that is chaired by Prof Lijian Hui and Prof Richard Gilbertson. Great to see so many friends in town!

10 Jun 2025 – Innovating the Future – The Power of Stem Cells For Regenerative Medicine & Biotechnology

It was a pleasure to have the opportunity to share our research work with a broader audience at the ISSCR 2025 Public Symposium held at HKSTP. Thank you to the organizers, in particular Prof. Kathy Cheah, for the invitation.

3 Jun 2025 – Despite losing my luggage, I thoroughly enjoyed visiting the University of Edinburgh with colleagues from the School of Biomedical Sciences and had the opportunity to share my team’s research. A big thank you to Ralf Jauch and Marieke Hoeve for their meticulous organization.

26-27 May 2025 – An incredible honor to chair the panel discussion on ‘The Changing Face of Cancer’ with Kwan-Hyun Cho, Xianding Ma, Dr. Diana Pignalosa, Min-Han Tan, Jody TIAN and Leo Wang at Asia Summit on Global Health 2025 held at the HK Convention Center. Very insightful discussions from our esteemed panelists on reversal therapy, liquid biopsies, immunotherapies, and strategic funding and acceleration in oncology innovation.

***Post-Meeting Update***
And that’s a wrap! So much learned at the FASEB SRC meeting on Cellular Plasticity in Cancer in HK this past week! This was the inaugural meeting in HK and the whole of China. I am thankful to all the speakers and participants for traveling across the globe and sharing their expertise and passion, and to FASEB and all the generous sponsors, in particular Croucher Foundation, for making this event possible. Special shout-outs to my two very supportive co-organizers Justin Lathia and Vivian Li; and of course, my spectacular team for their impeccable event coordination.
#FASEB #CPCSRC #ScienceHasNoBorders







FASEB SRC on Cellular Plasticity in Cancer to be held from May 4-8, 2025 in Hong Kong SAR, China 🔬🧬

We have an outstanding line-up of speakers! Explore cutting-edge research on cancer plasticity, metastasis, tumor-microenvironment, and more. Network with experts in your research field, obtain insights on scientific publications, and advance your future career.

Final program agenda

The International Conference 2025 for Drug Discovery and Development, organized by the Laboratory for Synthetic Chemistry and Chemical Biology Limited (LSCCB), took place successfully in Hong Kong from March 17 to 19, 2025. The three-day event facilitated in-depth discussions on various topics, including synthetic chemistry, chemical biology, diagnostics, theranostics, and multi-omics. During the conference, Stephanie presented on the team’s recent research, focusing on the use of a chemical biology approach to discover a small molecule inhibitor targeting the oncometabolite AGPAT4. Special thanks to Prof. CM Che for the invitation to speak at the event.

Happy to have the opportunity to co-organize and serve as a moderator for one of the sessions in the Young Academy of Sciences Summit sub-conference on “From Cancer Discovery Science to Therapeutic Innovation”.

14-15 Dec 2024 – Thank you Prof Ying Xu for the invitation to this year’s ICSB held at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen. A weekend well spent meeting people whose work we have followed on PubMed but first time meeting in person! Stephanie shared the team’s latest work on therapeutic targeting of HCC cell plasticity.

4-5 Dec 2024 – Congratulations to our two PhD students Venus and Angel on getting best oral and best poster presentation awards at this year’s HKUMed Research Postgraduate Symposium. Very well done and proud of you!