PhD student Jia Jian and Reseach Assistant Professor Carol shared their recent research stories at the 2021 SKLLR Symposium held on June 5th 2021. Click here for the program.
News
Our new publication in J Clin Invest
Thrilled to announce our new paper published in the June 1 2021 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Read about our findings on how FUT1 mediates fucoyslation of membrane-bound proteins, including CD147, EGFR, ICAM-1 and EPHA2, to drive cancer stemness in a glucose-deprived HCC microenvironment. Congrats to Jane and the team! Link to full article here.
Keystone eSymposia – Cancer Stem Cells
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.
Lab Retreat 2021
Our lab retreat was successfully held May 14-15 at HK Science Park’s InnoCell. The past year had been particularly challenging for everyone. It was a great opportunity to come together to share ideas, brainstorm, reflect, relax and socialize. I hope everyone enjoyed the time together. Thankful for my great team! #stayfocused #keeppushing 
And together with Terence’s team …
YS and Christabel Lung Postgraduate Scholarship 2020/21
Congrats to Hua-Jian and Jane on receiving the 2020/21 YS and Christabel Lung Postgraduate Scholarship from HKU! Hard work pays off 🙂
SBMS PDF Seminar – Lei Zhou
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.
SBMS RPG Seminar – Jia Jian Loh
Our PhD student JJ shared our latest research on using organoids to understand gastric cancer chemoresistance at the recent School of Biomedical Sciences RPG Seminar on March 12, 2021.
Our team is growing!
A very belated but warm welcome to our two new postdocs Ianto and Sara 🙂
SBMS RAP/PDF Seminar – Man Tong
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.
SBMS RAP/PDF Seminar – Tin Lok Wong
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.
