| Member |
Sphere
of Interest |
| Chairman |
| Professor
Eddy FY Liew * |
Basic
immunology; infection and autoimmune
diseases; vaccine development. |
| Members |
| Professor
Kai-nan An* |
Orthopedic
biomechanics; kinesiology of upper extremities,
sports and rehabilitation medicine,
and orthopedic surgery; soft tissue
mechanics, including tissue regeneration
and non-invasive assessment using medical
imaging such as magnetic resonance elastography
and ultrasound; mechanical and biochemical
factors influencing soft tissue integrity,
performance, and remodeling. |
| Professor
Rodulf Bauer* |
Phytochemical
and pharmacological investigations of
the active principles of medicinal plants
with anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory
activity , Echinacea preparations and
Chinese herbs. |
| Professor
Ben Berkhout* |
Virus
evolution, vaccines; emerging pathogens;
RNA structure and function; RNAi mechanism
and applications; HIV-1 virology; antiviral
therapies; drug resistance. |
| Professor
Clarence SM Chan* |
Control
of yeast chromosome segregation, polarized
cell growth, and signal transduction. |
| Dr
Shing Chang* |
Drug
Resistance; clinical microbiology; chemotherapy;
drug actions and targets. |
| Professor
Rowland W Chang* |
Rehabilitative
rheumatology, expertise in outcomes
of rehabilitation and orthopaedic surgical
treatments for persons with arthritis
and the determinants of functional limitation
in clinical and community populations
with arthritis. |
| Professor
Chih-chang Chu* |
Biomaterials;
siodegradable polymers and fibers; scaffolds
for tissue regeneration or engineering;
surgical implants; medical devices;
synthetic vascular grafts; orthopaedic
implants; surgical meshes; Sutures;
wound healing; drug control/release
devices; wound closure biomaterials;
wound infection, sterilization technology;
Foreign-body reactions to medical devices;
medical textiles. |
| Professor
Anne Cooke* |
Regulation
of the immune system with a particular
interest in autoimmune diseases such
as Type 1 diabetes. Associated interests
include infection, immune tolerance
and stem cells. |
| Professor
Tony KH Chung |
Clinical
Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Psychological
aspects of reproduction, Molecular aspects
of gynaecological cancers. |
| Professor
Hashem B. El-Serag* |
Barrett's
esophagus; dyspepsia and gastroesophageal
reflux disease; viral hepatitis; chronic
liver disease; hepatocellular carcinoma;
screening and surveillance of GI and
liver cancers; epidemiology and outcomes
of digestive disorders; genetic epidemiology. |
| Professor
Guoping Feng* |
Synapse;
circuit; optogenetics; OCD; autism;
bipolar disorder. |
| Professor
Farida Fortune* |
Oral
Biology, Oral Microbiology, Oral Pathology,
Oral Medicine, Oral Surgery and Oral
and Maxillofacial Radiology. |
| Professor
Min Han* |
Functions
of fatty acids and lipid variants in
development; miRNA functions; stress
responses in animal models; functions
of KASH-SUN nuclear envelop complexes. |
| Professor
David Tuan-hua Ho* |
Plant
molecular biology; Plant hormones; Transcriptional
regulation; Microbial cellulolytic enzymes;
Developmental transition; Metabolism. |
| Professor
Shuk-mei Ho* |
Nuclear
receptor, gene regulation, promoter
analyses, microarrays, epigenetics,
DNA methylation, prostate, ovarian and
breast cancer, carcinogenesis, estrogen
and androgen action, cell cycle and
apoptosis, oxidative stress, aging. |
| Professor
William N. Hunter* |
Protein
structure and function; fundamental
chemical biology and early stage antimicrobial
drug discovery. |
| Professor
Philip Ingham* |
Genetic
control of animal development with particular
reference to inductive interactions
mediated by the Hedgehog family of secreted
signalling proteins; the mechanisms
of Hedgehog signal transduction and
the specification of cell fate by Hedgehog
signalling using the zebrafish embryo
as a model system. |
| Professor
Karen SL Lam |
Diabetes
& Endocrinology. |
| Professor
Richard T. Lee* |
Cardiac
regeneration and stem cell biology. |
| Professor
Nicholas Lemoine* |
Cell
survival signalling, apoptosis; gastrointestinal,
pancreatic and hepatobiliary malignancies;
ovarian cancer; breast cancer; molecular
pathology, histopathology; gene amplication/loss,
translocations; early phase trials,
biological therapies, biomarkers. |
| Professor
Robert Modlin* |
Immunology
for microbial infection. |
| Professor
Irene OL Ng |
Molecular
genetics and functional genomics of
cancer; pathology; hepatitis, liver
transplantation and liver cancer. |
| Professor
Roger H. Reeves* |
Neural
crest; heart development; mouse models
of human diseases. |
| Professor
Pei-yuan Qian |
Marine
Ecology, larval biology of marine invertebrates,
marine fouling and anti-fouling, molecular
microbial ecology, environmental impact
assessment, multiculture and marine
natural products; ecotoxicology. |
| Professor
Alan Rickinson* |
Viral
oncology, tumour immunology, particular
expertise in the biology and immunology
of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and its
associated tumors. |
| Professor
Geoffrey L. Smith* |
Virology,
poxviruses, pathogenesis. |
| Professor
Brian G. Spratt* |
Molecular
epidemiology and multilocus sequence
typing; bacterial population and evolutionary
biology; recombination in bacteria;
bacterial species and speciation; new
approaches to microbial taxonomy, particularly
electronic taxonomy; bacterial pathogens
and genomics; antibiotic resistance. |
| Professor
Karl WK Tsim |
Traditional
Chinese Medicine, Molecular Neurobiology,
genetic analysis. |
| Professor
Rocky S. Tuan* |
Stem
cells, reprogramming, growth factors,
cartilage and osteoarthritis, intervertebral
disc, ligament and tendon, cell-based
tissue regeneration, bioreactors, biomaterial
scaffolds |
| Professor
Junying Yuan* |
Apoptosis, cell death; kinase, caspase. |
| Professor
Mingjie Zhang |
Structural-biology
of neuronal signaling complex organization
and regulation; protein complexes-governing
cell polarity; screening and development
of small molecules with therapeutic
potentials. |
| Secretary |
| Mrs
Alice Sham |
Assistant
Secretary General (Research)1, UGC. |
