June 12-15, 2023 – A few members of our team including Venus, Toni, Eric, Matthew, and Sheree traveled to Torino, Italy, and participated in the EACR 2023 Congress: Innovative Cancer Science. Always nice to spend time with the team outside the lab. 
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Thank you, goodbyes and welcome
An absolute pleasure to have Victoria, Phoebe, and Elok with us in the lab this past year. Congrats to Phoebe and Elok on successfully completing their BBMS FYPs and BBMS studies. Sincere thanks to Victoria for running our lab so smoothly. All the best to you all as you begin your new chapters in life!
Also a very warm welcome to Ju Yu, our new technical officer!
SBMS RPG Poster Presentation 2023
May 5, 2023 – Well done to PhD students Venus, Toni, Huanwen, and Huajian for preparing and performing so well. Congratulations to Huajian on securing one of the best poster awards!
LSCCB Symposium
May 17-18, 2023 – Health@InnoHK Laboratory for Synthetic Chemistry and Chemical Biology (LSCCB) Symposium. Exciting to see all the great work ongoing at the Centre led by Prof. CM Che. 
Our new publication in Nature Communications
Congratulations to Eric, Jia Jian and Shixun on their co-first author publication in Nature Communications – ADAR1-mediated RNA editing of SCD1 drives drug resistance and self-renewal in gastric cancer. Wonderful opportunity to collaborate with Prof SY Leung and her team at HKUMed, Prof John Copland of Mayo Clinic Florida, Prof JP Yun of SYSCC, and Prof LL Chen of CSI/NUS.
Read all about it here – PMID: 37208334,
AACR Annual Meeting 2023
April 14-19, 2023 – Excited to finally be able to participate at the AACR Annual Meeting again in person after a long COVID pause. Spent a lovely week in Orlando, FL, catching up with old friends, building memories with the team, and learning new things. See you AACR Annual Meeting 2024 in San Diego next year!
HKUMed Faculty Prize Presentation Ceremony 2023
April 28, 2023 – Celebration of our Faculty Output Prize for our publication in Gut. Admirable perseverance and hard work of Lena, Eric and the team, and a wonderful collaboration with Joshua and Ken. 
Undergraduate Research Fellowship Programme 2022-23 – Poster Presentation Session
The lab hosted two brilliant BBMS summer interns Elok and Phoebe under the HKU Undergraduate Research Fellowship Programme #URFP 2022-23 in the summer of 2022. Both students shared their work at the Poster Presentation Session held on April 19, 2023. Congratulations to Phoebe on securing one of the six Best Presentation Awards. Well done to both!
Chinese Society for Metabolic Biology – Metabolic H Talk
Presented the team’s work at the Chinese Society for Metabolic Biology – Metabolic H Talk series on Easter Saturday. Thank you Kenneth for the invitation to speak. 
NCI CCR Liver Cancer Program Virtual Seminar Series
March 30th 2023 – Grateful to have the opportunity to share and interact with so many members of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) – Centre for Cancer Research (CCR) – Liver Cancer Program (LCP) at their virtual seminar series. Thank you Anu, Xin Wei and Tim for the invitation to speak.
