11-14 Jun 2025 – ISSCR Annual Meeting in HK!
I had the fortunate opportunity to speak in the concurrent session on ‘Metabolism, Stem Cells and Cancer” under the theme of “Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer” that is chaired by Prof Lijian Hui and Prof Richard Gilbertson. Great to see so many friends in town!![]()
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ISSCR 2025 Public Symposium
10 Jun 2025 – Innovating the Future – The Power of Stem Cells For Regenerative Medicine & Biotechnology
It was a pleasure to have the opportunity to share our research work with a broader audience at the ISSCR 2025 Public Symposium held at HKSTP. Thank you to the organizers, in particular Prof. Kathy Cheah, for the invitation.



2nd Edinburgh – HK Joint Symposium on Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine
3 Jun 2025 – Despite losing my luggage, I thoroughly enjoyed visiting the University of Edinburgh with colleagues from the School of Biomedical Sciences and had the opportunity to share my team’s research. A big thank you to Ralf Jauch and Marieke Hoeve for their meticulous organization.


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!


Asia Summit on Global Health 2025
26-27 May 2025 – An incredible honor to chair the panel discussion on ‘The Changing Face of Cancer’ with Kwan-Hyun Cho, Xianding Ma, Dr. Diana Pignalosa, Min-Han Tan, Jody TIAN and Leo Wang at Asia Summit on Global Health 2025 held at the HK Convention Center. Very insightful discussions from our esteemed panelists on reversal therapy, liquid biopsies, immunotherapies, and strategic funding and acceleration in oncology innovation. 


FASEB SRC – Cellular Plasticity in Cancer
***Post-Meeting Update***
And that’s a wrap! So much learned at the FASEB SRC meeting on Cellular Plasticity in Cancer in HK this past week! This was the inaugural meeting in HK and the whole of China. I am thankful to all the speakers and participants for traveling across the globe and sharing their expertise and passion, and to FASEB and all the generous sponsors, in particular Croucher Foundation, for making this event possible. Special shout-outs to my two very supportive co-organizers Justin Lathia and Vivian Li; and of course, my spectacular team for their impeccable event coordination.
#FASEB #CPCSRC #ScienceHasNoBorders




FASEB SRC on Cellular Plasticity in Cancer to be held from May 4-8, 2025 in Hong Kong SAR, China 🔬🧬
We have an outstanding line-up of speakers! Explore cutting-edge research on cancer plasticity, metastasis, tumor-microenvironment, and more. Network with experts in your research field, obtain insights on scientific publications, and advance your future career.
HK Inter-University Postdoctoral Symposium in Biomedical Sciences 2025
The HK Inter-University Postdoctoral Symposium in Biomedical Sciences was held on 15 April 2025 at the School of Biomedical Sciences, CUHK. Building upon the resounding success of last year’s symposium, this event aims to bring together postdoctoral fellows in the field of Biomedical Sciences from CUHK, HKU, and HKUST to exchange research ideas and foster collaborations.
Congratulations to PDF Huajian for achieving the First Place Oral Presentation Award out of over 20 oral presentations delivered. Well done on this outstanding accomplishment!

LSCCB’s International Conference 2025 for Drug Discovery and Development
The International Conference 2025 for Drug Discovery and Development, organized by the Laboratory for Synthetic Chemistry and Chemical Biology Limited (LSCCB), took place successfully in Hong Kong from March 17 to 19, 2025. The three-day event facilitated in-depth discussions on various topics, including synthetic chemistry, chemical biology, diagnostics, theranostics, and multi-omics. During the conference, Stephanie presented on the team’s recent research, focusing on the use of a chemical biology approach to discover a small molecule inhibitor targeting the oncometabolite AGPAT4. Special thanks to Prof. CM Che for the invitation to speak at the event.
Young Academy of Sciences Summit
Happy to have the opportunity to co-organize and serve as a moderator for one of the sessions in the Young Academy of Sciences Summit sub-conference on “From Cancer Discovery Science to Therapeutic Innovation”.



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 🌇![]()
