Faculty

Head

Chair Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Vascular Biology

Jeanie Hu Professorship in Biomedical Sciences

• yu.huang
• +852 3442-7746
• Vascular and Metabolic Biology • Atherosclerosis • Mechanobiology • Exercise and Health Benefits

Associate Head

Professor

• xi.yao
• +852 3442-4829
• Bioinspired material • Biofunctional polymer • Bioelectronics • Bionanotechnology

Chair Professor of Molecular Medicine (BMS & MSE)

Associate Vice President (Research)

Executive Director (HKIAS)

Director of Laboratory Safety and Risk Management (LSU)

• bhcheng
• +852 3442-9027
• Nature or nurture: molecular and chemical regulation of vertebrate embryonic development and adult organ regeneration

Chair Professor of Neuroscience (NS & BMS)

Wong Chun Hong Chair Professor in Translational Neuroscience (NS & BMS)

Head (NS)

Director of Research Centre for Treatments of Brain Disorders (CBD)

Home department: NS

• jufanghe
• +852 3442-7042
• Neuroscience: Hearing, Memory and Attention

Chair Professor (NS & BMS)

Home department: NS

• yingli
• +852 3442-2669
• Brain mechanism of pain and cognitive deficits • Synaptic and myelin plasticity • Glia-neuron interaction

Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering (MNE, MSE & BMS)

Director (CASM & NPMM)

Senior Fellow (IAS)

Home department: MNE

• jianlu
• +852 3442-9811
• Experimental mechanics • Residual stress • Mechanical properties of metallic and ceramic materials • Metallurgy • 4D printing

Yeung Kin Man Chair Professor of Biomedical Sciences

Senior Vice-President (Innovation and Enterprise)

Director (TBSC)

Director (BTC)

• bhmyang
• +852 3442-7797
• Cancer Biology • Microfluidic Technology • Nanomedicine

Professor

• minglihe
• +852 3442-4492
• Molecular Virology • Host-Virus Interaction • Cellular Innate Immunity • Target-specific Drug Development for Anticancer/Antiviral • Signal Transduction

Professor

• chiklau
• +852 3442-9327
• RNA Biology and Technology • RNA Biogenesis • Structural and Chemical Biology • Molecular Microbiology

Professor

• huiyoyin
• +852 3442-2812
• metabolic reprogramming • metabolomics/ lipidomics • atherosclerosis • liver cancer • lipid peroxidation • hyperuricemia and gout • mass spectrometry • ALDH2 • Aldolase

Associate Professor

• Ban.KW
• +852 3442-7477
• Stem Cell Biology • Regenerative Medicine • Cardiovascular Regeneration • Cardiovascular Physiology

Associate Professor (BMS & EE)

• katie.kh.chan
• +852 3442-6661
• Genetic and molecular epidemiology • Systems Biology • Computational biology • Bioinformatics • Diseases prediction and prevention

Associate Professor

• ming.chan
• +852 3442-4346
• Cancer Biology • Cancer Genome Editing • CRISPR/Cas9 in vivo screen • Cancer Epigenetics

Associate Professor

• rebecca.chin
• +852 3442-6743
• Personalized targeted therapy • Cancer drivers and vulnerabilities in triple-negative breast cancer • PI3K/Akt signaling pathway in therapeutic resistance • Brain metastasis • Tumor organoids

Associate Professor

• jinykim
• +852 3442-4309
• circadian clocks • neural cells • adult neural stem cells • brain repair systems

Associate Professor

• xq.lao
• +852 3442-4828
• Environmental Health (with a focus on Environmental Epidemiology) • Population Health • Air pollution and Health • Cohort study

Associate Professor

• gigi.lo
• +852 3442-4493
• Bioimaging • Drug delivery • Nanomedicine • Phototherapy • Supramolecular chemistry

Associate Professor

• kingston.mak
• +852 3442-2367
• Skeletal Biology • Skeletal diseases • Tissue regeneration • Stem cell biology • Mechanobiology and energy metabolism

Associate Professor

• wenjun.xiong
• +852 3442-2494
• Photoreceptor cells • Retinal degeneration diseases • Gene therapy • Regenerative medicine

Associate Professor

• jian.yan
• +852 3442-9078
• Molecular Mechanism of Osteosarcoma Tumorigenesis and Pulmonary Metastasis • lncRNA Function • Transcription Factor in Transcriptional Regulation • Genomic Tool Development

Associate Professor

• sean.yuan
• +852 3442-6660
• Mathematical modelling & simulation • Computational biology • Infectious disease epidemiology • Population biology and evolution • Precision medicine

Associate Professor

• liangzhang.28
• +852 3442-4495
• Cancer-microenvironment interaction • Mass spectrometry and proteomics • Exosomes • Wnt signaling • Cell migration and metastasis

Associate Professor

• zongli.zheng
• +852 3442-2199
• Precision Genome Editing • Liquid Biopsy • Gene Rearrangement

Assistant Professor

• lingxi.chen
• +852 3442-2714
• Molecular & Cell Diagnostics • Cancer Biology & Therapy • Genomics & Bioinformatics • Infectious Diseases & Immunity

Assistant Professor (BMS & NS)

• xi.chen
• +852 3442-9754
• higher order cortex • primary sensory cortex • neural circuit • innate responses • associative memory

Assistant Professor

• kwan.chow
• +852 3442-4395
• cancer • immunology • immunotherapy • innate immunity

Assistant Professor

• peter.lidsky
• +852 3442-2914
• aging • evolution • virology • cellular senescence • Drosophila

Assistant Professor

• li.wang
• +852 3442-9187
• Metabolism • Cardiovascular • Drug screen • Secretory proteins • Organ crosstalk

Assistant Professor

• jilin.zhang
• +852 3442-2130
• Computational Biology • RNA Binding Proteins • Long Non-coding RNAs • Epigenetics • Genomics • Evolutionary Biology • Sex Chromosome