Ecstatic to have the opportunity to participate at the Keystone eSymposia on Cancer Stem Cells: Advances in Biology and Clinical Translation held May 19-21, 2021. Shared my group’s recent research progress on how the non-cellular components of the tumor microenvironment shapes cancer stemness in the liver; and learnt about the exciting new projects from others! Postdoc Lena and PhD student Huajian in the lab also shared their recent research findings in a short talk and poster abstract. Link to full program can be found here.

Our PDF Lena sharing her latest findings on Prom1/CD133 heterogeneity in HCC at the School’s PDF Seminar Series held on March 31, 2021.

Our Research Assistant Professor Man Tong (Carol) gave a summary of her past and current work on novel therapeutic strategies to target dysregulated signaling pathways in HCC at the School of Biomedical Sciences RAP/PDF Seminar Series on January 27, 2021.

Our postdoc Tin Lok Wong (Eric) gave a seminar on his latest work on modeling liver cancer and therapy response using driver-dependent tumor organoids derived from primary mouse liver tumors at the School of Biomedical Sciences RAP/PDF Seminar Series on January 6, 2021.

July 18 2020 – This year’s State Key Laboratory of Liver Research (SKLLR) Annual Symposium was postponed again and again due to COVID-19. But despite all obstacles, the event was successfully held online through ZOOM on July 18th 2020. Our Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Tin-Lok Wong gave a presentation on his latest work “CRAF methylation by PRMT6 regulates aerobic glycolysis driven hepatocarcinogenesis via ERK-dependent PKM2 nuclear relocalization and activation” which was just published in the April 2020 issue of Hepatology.

Dec 9 to 12 2019 @ Awaji, Japan  – Shared, learned, met new and caught up with old friends at the Cold Spring Harbor Asia 2019 Conference on Liver, Biology, Diseases and Cancer held in Awaji, Japan this year.

Jane sharing her latest research findings at the poster session.

Nov 4-6 2019 @ Bad Nauheim, Germany – Stephanie gave a talk at the HKU-CUHK-GIBH-MPI Joint Symposium – New Frontiers in Stem Cell Biology at Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research.

Oct 28-31 2019 @ Shanghai, China – Blessed to have the opportunity to participate in the World Laureates Association 2nd Annual Forum this year. Such an eye opening experience to be in the same room with 44 Nobel Laureates at the same time.