Congrats to Huajian on her first author publication in Hepatology – SERPINA12 promotes the tumorigenic capacity of HCC stem cells through hyperactivation of AKT/β-catenin signaling.
Read all about it here – PMID: 36630996.

News
28th Medical Research Conference @HKUMed
Happy to have the opportunity to interact with our clinical colleagues in the Department of Medicine, SClinMed at their annual Medical Research Conference (MRC), held on Jan 14th 2023 at HKUMed.
2023 New Year Gathering
Kicking-off 2023 with a feast!
Croucher Senior Research Fellowship 2023
Incredibly blessed to be selected as a recipient of the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship 2023. Regrettably, I missed the Croucher Foundation Award Presentation Ceremony on Dec 8th, 2022 as I was down with COVID-19 that week. Thank you Croucher Foundation for your continuous support of our liver cancer research work. Congratulations to all the recipients! Find out more about all the awardee’s research work here. 
Media coverage of the award presentation ceremony by HKET TOPick.
Media coverage by Ming Pao, HKET TOPick, and Oriental Daily on Dec 28th, 2022. 

‘Liver Research’ Journal Seminar
Happy to have the opportunity to share our team’s recent work at the <Liver Research> journal seminar series hosted by The Third Affiliated Hospital of the Sun Yat-Sen University on Dec 28th, 2022.
SMA Lab Christmas Gift Exchange 2022
Merry Christmas from our lab to yours!
SBMS Research Day 2022
Jia Jian representing the lab at the School of Biomedical Sciences Research Day 2022 🙂

HKUMed 27th RPS
The annual HKU Faculty of Medicine Research Postgraduate Symposium (RPS) was held on 30 Nov to 1 Dec this year. Our final year Ph.D. students Jia Jian and Toni presented their research projects at the Oral Presentation Session and performed remarkably. Stephanie also shared the stage with Prof. Anderson Shum and participated in the Career Talk Session.
SKLLR Symposium 2022
Ph.D. student Toni and Research Assistant Professor Eric shared the lab’s latest research work at the State Key Laboratory of Liver Research (SKLLR) Symposium 2022 held at JW Marriott on October 29th. 



Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student 2020/21
Congrats to Jane on being awarded the HKU Foundation Award for Outstanding Research Postgraduate Students 2020/21! We are very happy for you!
The award was established by HKU Graduate School to recognize research postgraduate students who have submitted a thesis of exceptional quality and demonstrated outstanding performance in other academic aspects. Only 10 students selected across various disciplines will receive the award each year.