Farewell to our final-year BBMS student, Henry, who spent a year with us in the lab. Wishing you all the best as you embark on your MBBS journey!
Lab Activities
XPLORER SYMPOSIA – Lineage Tracing across Regeneration & Disease
14-17 May 2026 – Had a wonderful experience at my first XPLORER SYMPOSIA! Thank you Kathy and Bin for the kind invitation to speak. I learned a lot and also enjoyed catching up with some of my team over a lovely lunch in Shanghai.
HKU Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award 2025
Stephanie was honored with the HKU Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award 2025 during the HKU Excellence Awards Presentation Ceremony held on April 30, 2025, at the Rayson Huang Theatre.
“Professor Ma believes that no goal is too ambitious if driven by motivation. Her greatest fulfilment comes from seeing her students and staff succeed. She is grateful to work alongside a team of passionate, fearless young researchers who share her enthusiasm.”
XMAS 2025
Merry Christmas from our lab to yours! 
SKLLR Symposium 2025
25 Oct 2025 – Our Postdoc Venus shared her research findings at this year’s SKLLR Symposium held at the JW Marriott Hotel.
Dr. Ruidong Xue’s Visit to SBMS
28 May 2025 – A pleasure hosting Dr Ruidong Xue of Peking University Medicine to the School of Biomedical Sciences at HKUMed and to learn about his research work in person, after following his publications for many years. Thank you for all the useful comments provided to our ongoing projects!
SMA LAB XMAS 2024
The team gathered to celebrate the spirit of Christmas, which I like to define as “togetherness”. It is in the thought to which you put into thinking about others. We are thankful to have each other’s support in the lab throughout the year, keeping each other sane through the ups and downs of research.
We also wish to take this opportunity to congratulate Sheree on passing her PhD oral defense with flying colors (Dr. Lam!) and welcoming our 4 new PhD students Angela, Billy, Changmo and Yuxin as well as our new RA Rafter and RAP Gladys!
A wonderful lab XMAS party with secret santa gift exchange, ping pong challenge to win a chance to skip lab meeting presentation and celebrating Johnson’s XX birthday! Thankful for this bunch!
S M A under a beautiful sunset 🌇
All the best Jia-Jian!
May 24, 2024 – Bidding farewell to our PhD graduate Jia-Jian, and wishing him all the best in his new endeavors at the Francis Crick Institute!
HKU Outstanding Researcher Award 2022-23
March 16, 2024 – Ecstatic to be recognized by HKU with this year’s Outstanding Researcher Award and honored to be sharing the stage with my wonderful colleague David Li. I am particularly grateful for my team (past and present) for this would not have been possible without their hard work. Thank you to every one of you who has been on this journey with me.
A recap of the award ceremony can be found here.
Dr Toni Man and Dr JJ Loh
Congratulations on earning your doctorate!
#proudsupervisor
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