Prof. Angela Wu was invited to give a general audience talk about the different vaccine technologies for The Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences (香港青年科學院) on March 27, 2021.
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The award is open to Chinese nationals under the age of 38 who have made outstanding contributions in the fields of medicine and life sciences.
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Prof. Bik-Kwoon Tye and Prof. Danny Leung, in collaboration with the University of Hong Kong (HKU), recently made a breakthrough on how the ORC selects the site for origins of replications and the basis behind the divergence between humans and yeast.
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Using zebrafish as an animal model, Prof. Zilong Wen and his research team identified two distinct microglial populations – the phagocytotic microglia and regulatory microglia. Their findings were published in the journal Science Advances.
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A research team led by Prof. Tom CHEUNG, Associate Professor in the Division of Life Science at HKUST, revealed the relationship between Dek and Intron retention during muscle stem cell quiescence.
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In this study published in the journal PNAS, Prof. Tom Cheung and his research team have found that a lncRNA, LncMyoD, regulates the differentiation of muscle cells through modulating chromatin accessibility.
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Seeing how Alzheimer’s disease has turned her beloved aunt from a sprightly 75-year-old to a confusing mind, Dr. Fanny IP Chui-Fun says the experience is frustrating for her as a neuroscientist because the disease remains incurable.
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The Croucher Senior Research Fellowships scheme was first introduced in 1997. It is awarded to local academics who have excelled in scientific research work as judged by leading international scientists invited to provide confidential reviews of candidates nominated in a competitive exercise.
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Prof. Angela Wu has just been awarded the ASPIRE League Partnership Seed Fund to investigate primate-specific RNA-editing using single-cell RNA-seq.
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