March 30th 2023 – Grateful to have the opportunity to share and interact with so many members of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) – Centre for Cancer Research (CCR) – Liver Cancer Program (LCP) at their virtual seminar series. Thank you Anu, Xin Wei and Tim for the invitation to speak.
Conferences
APASL 2023 in Taipei
So happy to finally be able to attend a conference in person. A pleasure to participate in this year’s Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APPLE) 2023 held at the Taipei International Convention Centre from Feb 15-19, 2023 as a speaker and moderator. Congratulations to our Ph.D. student Jia Jian on securing two awards – The Best Poster Award in the Young Investigators Workshop as well as Second Place in the Young Investigator Award. Well done!
CTSCB Symposium @HKSTP
The first CTSCB Symposium in Stem Cell Translation was held at HKSTP on Feb 9th, 2023. Happy to have the opportunity to see all the exciting work ongoing at the Centre for Translational Stem Cell Biology, led by Prof. Pentao Liu and funded by ITC’s Health@InnoHK. 
28th Medical Research Conference @HKUMed
Happy to have the opportunity to interact with our clinical colleagues in the Department of Medicine, SClinMed at their annual Medical Research Conference (MRC), held on Jan 14th 2023 at HKUMed.
‘Liver Research’ Journal Seminar
Happy to have the opportunity to share our team’s recent work at the <Liver Research> journal seminar series hosted by The Third Affiliated Hospital of the Sun Yat-Sen University on Dec 28th, 2022.
SBMS Research Day 2022
Jia Jian representing the lab at the School of Biomedical Sciences Research Day 2022 🙂
HKUMed 27th RPS
The annual HKU Faculty of Medicine Research Postgraduate Symposium (RPS) was held on 30 Nov to 1 Dec this year. Our final year Ph.D. students Jia Jian and Toni presented their research projects at the Oral Presentation Session and performed remarkably. Stephanie also shared the stage with Prof. Anderson Shum and participated in the Career Talk Session.
SKLLR Symposium 2022
Ph.D. student Toni and Research Assistant Professor Eric shared the lab’s latest research work at the State Key Laboratory of Liver Research (SKLLR) Symposium 2022 held at JW Marriott on October 29th. 
SKLLR Internal Meeting 2022
Johnson and Ianto shared their research findings at the annual SKLLR Internal Meeting that was held on August 20th. Always lovely to gather with different research groups working in the same field to catch up, share and discuss. Well done to both and in particular Johnson who won one of the Best Presentation Awards 🙂
6th IASCBC 2022
Stephanie shared the team’s latest research work on the liver CSC tumor microenvironment at the recent 6th International Anatomical Sciences and Cell Biology Conference (IASCBC) held virtually from February 21 to 23, 2022. Thank you to Leilei Chen for the invitation and for chairing the session on Cancer Biology. Hope to visit Singapore in person next time! 
The SMA Lab 