Warm congratulations to our PhD student Noelia Che on being awarded one of three Best Oral Presentation Awards at this year’s HKU Faculty of Medicine’s Research Postgraduate Symposium held from 5-7 December 2018. We are proud of you! Job well done!
Conferences
4th Pan-Asian Biomedical Science Conference
Stephanie was invited to deliver a keynote speech on liver cancer stem cells and a pre-conference workshop on pre-clinical cancer models for improved precision medicine at the 4th Pan-Asian Biomedical Science Conference that was held in Danang Vietnam from 5-7 December 2018. Thank you for the invite!
2018 Beijing Liver Cancer International Conference (BLCIC)
Stephanie presented the team’s work on liver cancer stemness as an invited speaker at the 2018 Beijing Liver Cancer International Conference that was held at Peking University in Beijing, China from 2-4 November 2018.
Stem Cell & Cancer Symposium 2018 at University of Malaya
Thanks to Selvee for the kind invite, Stephanie presented the lab’s work on liver cancer stemness at the Stem Cell & Cancer Symposium 2018 held at University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 17-18 October 2018.
Congrats to Eric on his EACR Bursary!
Our post-doc Eric Wong was awarded one of five European Association for Cancer Research (EACR)-Worldwide Cancer Research Meeting Bursaries and presented his work at the EACR – Mechanisms to Therapies: Innovations in Cancer Metabolism meeting that was held in Bilbao, Spain from 9-11 October 2018.
TBRS Symposium: Gastric Cancer Genomics and Beyond
August 28 2018 – Theme Based Research Scheme (TBRS) Symposium: Gastric Cancer Genomics and Beyond – Organoids, Genomics and Cell Biology
Stephanie presented the team’s latest work on use of organoids for the studies of gastric and liver cancer biology.
CSHL Meeting – Mechanisms and Models of Cancer 2018
August 14-18 2018 – Cold Spring Harbor Lab Meeting – Mechanisms and Models of Cancer.
Great meeting! Stephanie shared the team’s work ‘Arginine methylation by PRMT6 as a novel stemness and metabolic regulator in hepatocellular carcinoma”. Bonus: meeting James Watson! #watsonandcrick #thedoublehelix #nobellaureate #DNA #90yo
Cancer Stem Cell Conference 2018
Aug 6-8 2018 – Cancer Stem Cell Conference 2018 in Cleveland, Ohio. This is the third meeting series of this biannual event. Stephanie presented the team’s work on PRMT6 and its effect through post-translational modification via arginine methylation in the context of liver cancer.
ISSCR 2018
Stephanie gave an invited talk at the Concurrent Session on Stem Cells & Cancer at the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) Annual Meeting, held in Melbourne, Australia from 20-23 June 2018. Thank you for the opportunity ISSCR! Our postdoctoral fellow Lei Zhou (Lena) also shared her latest research data in the form of a poster and was recognized with an ISSCR Travel Award. Congrats Lena!
The Liver Week 2018
PhD student Noelia Che recognized with a Travel Award at the 2018 Liver Week conference that was held in Incheon, South Korea from June 14-16th. Congrats Noel!
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