April 5-10, 2024 with Johnson, Ianto, Venus, Angel, Elok and Matt.

April 5-10, 2024 with Johnson, Ianto, Venus, Angel, Elok and Matt.

March 22, 2024 – Thankful for the opportunity to reconnect with Lena and Ming and to give a seminar at The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou this past March.
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.
March 8, 2024 – Stephanie shared the team’s latest research at the first sub-conference of the Young Academy of Sciences Summit (YASS) held at CUHK. Under the theme “Life Science”, the sub-conference focused on emerging technologies in regenerative medicine and the application of stem cells in the treatment of diseases.

A big round of applause to our new PhD student Elok on securing the prestigious Croucher Foundation Studentship! Well done!
Congrats to Toni and Lena on their co-first author publication in Nature Communications!
It was a pleasure collaborating with the teams of Ming Liu of Guangzhou Medical University, XY Guan of HKUMed, Jun Yu of CUHK, Terence Lee of PolyU and Jing-Ping Yun of SYSU Cancer Centre.
Thank you for the invitation to speak, Derrick!

Sept 24-25, 2023 – Advancing Cancer Prevention & Treatment in Greater Bay Areas
Happy to have the opportunity to participate in this conference organized by Prof. Anne Lee and Prof. XY Guan and shared about our recent cancer cell plasticity findings.
Johnson presented his latest research findings at the State Key Laboratory of Liver Research (SKLLR) Annual Meeting held at JW Marriott on Nov 25, 2023. Well done! Again, a morning well spent learning about exciting HCC research work in the regional area.
Stephanie shared her team’s latest work on SPINK1-induced tumor lineage plasticity in HCC at the Yellow Webinar hosted by the Italian Liver Foundation on Nov 20, 2023.