December 9, 2021 – Finally, some time to relax and have fun! Thankful for this bunch 😊
News
Cold Spring Harbor Asia – Liver Meeting 2021
A pleasure to participate and give a talk at this year’s Cold Spring Harbor Asia – Liver Development, Metabolism, Disease & Cancer held in hybrid mode from Dec 7 to 10, 2021. Stephanie shared the team’s latest research work on Prom1/CD133 tracing in HCC. Thank you and I hope to join the conference in person next year!
RGC Research Fellow Scheme 2021/22
November 11, 2021 – Research Grants Council (RGC) held an award presentation ceremony to honor academics for their research achievements. Very honored to be one of the recipients of the Research Fellow Scheme this year. The local newspaper Sing Tao Daily also did a cover of the news interviewing some of the award recipients with the article published December 6, 2021. Read all about it here!
26th HKUMed Research Postgraduate Symposium
Stephanie’s PhD students Jia Jian and Huajian as well as Carol’s MPhil student Yunong presented at the annual HKUMed Research Postgraduate Symposium that was held Dec 1-2, 2021. Huajian and Yunong were awarded Best Poster Awards. Well done to all and keep up the good work!
School of Biomedical Sciences RPG Seminars
Stephanie’s PhD student Toni and Carol’s MPhil student Yunong shared their latest research findings at the recent School of Biomedical Sciences RPG Seminar held in Nov and Dec 2021.
Korean Society for Cancer Prevention
Thank you for the invitation to speak at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Korean Society for Cancer Prevention. Good to see old friends (though virtually) and learn about new cancer studies. Hope to visit and attend the conference in person next time! Program here.
Our new paper in Cancer Research
Very happy to see our work on FSTL1+ CAFs in driving HCC stemness and metastasis finally published in the most recent issue of Cancer Research. Also out is our recently published and related mini-review article on the role of CAFs in the maintenance of stemness in the tumor microenviornment. Very well done, JJ, Carol, Natalie, and the team. We also thank our collaborators for their support.
Read the Cancer Research and Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology articles here.
Our new publication in Gut
Stepped out of our comfort zone and explored into lineage tracing and scRNA-seq. Years of hard work with great preserverance from our three leading authors Lena, Ken and Eric; and a wonderful collaboration with Dr. Joshua Ho. Excited to share our lab’s latest work published in Gut.
Lineage tracing and single-cell analysis reveal proliferative Prom1+ tumor-propagating cells and their dynamic cellular transition during liver cancer progression – read all about it here!
Lowy Cancer Seminar Series at UNSW Sydney
Stephanie gave a virtual talk on “Cancer stem cell niche in hepatocellular carcinoma” at the monthly Lowy Cancer Seminar Series, Lowy Cancer Research Centre at the University of South Wales in Sydney on September 29, 2021. Thank you for the invitation. Hope there are opportunites to collaborate in the future! Details of the seminar series can be found here.
Congrats and Goodbye
Congrats to Lena on her paper in Gut (more details to follow) … and thank you for your contribution to our lab. Your dedication to research is admirable. All the best to you in your new adventures. Hope we can continue to work together as collaborators in the future!
The SMA Lab 