Jia Jian representing the lab at the School of Biomedical Sciences Research Day 2022 🙂
Conferences
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! 
State Key Lab of Liver Research Internal Research Meeting 2021
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!
Cold Spring Harbor Asia – Liver Meeting 2021
A pleasure to participate and give a talk at this year’s Cold Spring Harbor Asia – Liver Development, Metabolism, Disease & Cancer held in hybrid mode from Dec 7 to 10, 2021. Stephanie shared the team’s latest research work on Prom1/CD133 tracing in HCC. Thank you and I hope to join the conference in person next year!
26th HKUMed Research Postgraduate Symposium
Stephanie’s PhD students Jia Jian and Huajian as well as Carol’s MPhil student Yunong presented at the annual HKUMed Research Postgraduate Symposium that was held Dec 1-2, 2021. Huajian and Yunong were awarded Best Poster Awards. Well done to all and keep up the good work!
Korean Society for Cancer Prevention
Thank you for the invitation to speak at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Korean Society for Cancer Prevention. Good to see old friends (though virtually) and learn about new cancer studies. Hope to visit and attend the conference in person next time! Program here.
Lowy Cancer Seminar Series at UNSW Sydney
Stephanie gave a virtual talk on “Cancer stem cell niche in hepatocellular carcinoma” at the monthly Lowy Cancer Seminar Series, Lowy Cancer Research Centre at the University of South Wales in Sydney on September 29, 2021. Thank you for the invitation. Hope there are opportunites to collaborate in the future! Details of the seminar series can be found here.
The SMA Lab 