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. ![]()
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Conferences
29th HKUMed Research Postgraduate Symposium
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!![]()
Anti-Cancer Together (ACT) Online Forum
November 3rd 2024 – Thank you Shi-Yong for the invitation to speak. Sunday morning was well spent sharing the team’s research on oncofetal proteins in maintaining a more stemness state in HCC at the Anti-Cancer Together (ACT) Online Forum.
SKLLR Symposium 2024
Stephanie shared the team’s latest findings on the discovery of potential therapies for CTNNB1 mutation-driven HCC using a genetically defined, syngeneic mouse organoid platform at this year’s SKLLR Symposium, held on October 16th, 2024, at Renaissance Harbor View Hotel HK.
2nd International Symposium on Frontiers of Biomedicine and Health
Thank you Yan Yan of Huazhong Agricultural University for the invitation to speak at this international symposium. Saturday afternoon well spent in an engaging session on mechanisms of tumorigenesis and prevention strategies.
83rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cancer Association
Sept 19-21, 2024 – 83rd Annual Meeting of JCA at Fukuoka, Japan
Stephanie gave a talk in the International Session on ‘”Cellular Plasticity: How do cancer cells rewire molecular, biochemical and phenotypic pathways for adapting to malignant progression?”. Thank you Wai-Leong Tam and Hiromichi Ebi for the invitation to speak. A pleasure to meet both in person and reconnect with old friends.
SKLLR Internal Research Meeting 2024
PhD students Venus, Angel, Huanwen, and Jingyi presented their research projects at the SKLLR Internal Research Meeting on August 17, 2024. Congratulations to Angel on securing the one and only Best Poster Award!

EACR 2024 in Rotterdam
June 10-13, 2024 with Huanwen, Huajian and Jia.

AACR 2024 in San Diego
April 5-10, 2024 with Johnson, Ianto, Venus, Angel, Elok and Matt.

Visit to Guangzhou
March 22, 2024 – Thankful for the opportunity to reconnect with Lena and Ming and to give a seminar at The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou this past March.